Mm, I've always found it interesting that the library would let me get out as much erotica as I wanted (well, if memory serves you're not allowed to issue adult books on your library card until you're 12 or 13, but I just got them out on my mum's - not erotica, but it could've been). OTOH, when it comes to objectionable material there are limits, ID checks on magazines and restricted-entry shops (then again there are always going to be enforcement issues).
Coin Locker Babies is such love...it brings to mind, Murakami Ryu's Almost Transparent Blue which is pretty damn eroguro, and not in an apologetic or romanticized way... I know the NZ legal authorities regarding rating and censorship very well, and I've always found it interesting that books can get away with blue murder in print, yet online people feel this pressing need to rate and warn about every little thing. I guess I do understand it on one level....yet....
Lol, that's what worries me. If they're really worried about keeping kids out that's not that way to go about it. It comes across as pretty insincere. Of course, I have my own prejudices - I hate these sorts of restrictions, for multiple reasons but especially on principle alone I'd never, ever join a community or state my age on a public post (it's on my profile anyway, but I disagree on principle) just to read fanworks by one person or even a group of people. Mainly because the average quality of fanfiction is very low (especially in the fandom concerned).
(Oh dear. Good luck, my darling!♥ *sends luck across the ocean to blanket-but-not-suffocate you, all aura-like*! [I need to stop these random TVXQ outbursts to you, but I just thoroughly disturbed Simon with princess!Minnie pics *happy grin*] GANBATTE<3)
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Date: 2007-05-21 09:03 am (UTC)Coin Locker Babies is such love...it brings to mind, Murakami Ryu's Almost Transparent Blue which is pretty damn eroguro, and not in an apologetic or romanticized way... I know the NZ legal authorities regarding rating and censorship very well, and I've always found it interesting that books can get away with blue murder in print, yet online people feel this pressing need to rate and warn about every little thing. I guess I do understand it on one level....yet....
Lol, that's what worries me. If they're really worried about keeping kids out that's not that way to go about it. It comes across as pretty insincere. Of course, I have my own prejudices - I hate these sorts of restrictions, for multiple reasons but especially on principle alone I'd never, ever join a community or state my age on a public post (it's on my profile anyway, but I disagree on principle) just to read fanworks by one person or even a group of people. Mainly because the average quality of fanfiction is very low (especially in the fandom concerned).
(Oh dear. Good luck, my darling!♥ *sends luck across the ocean to blanket-but-not-suffocate you, all aura-like*! [I need to stop these random TVXQ outbursts to you, but I just thoroughly disturbed Simon with princess!Minnie pics *happy grin*] GANBATTE<3)