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RE: Sex is normal - so why do we shield our teens from it?
Maybe best to include it in your guidelines yes. You are of course free to censor whatever you want in your own writing group. I am just surprised that you are fine with "any other genre" except for erotic romance. So all the many many genres involving violence are fine for your young readers? Horror, crime, thrillers? I fully understand you wanting to censor content due to your young readers, but why just sex? That is what I try to address in my blog post.
Censor is the wrong term here. Would you expect us to force our editors to critique erotica, even though they explicitly refuse to? To what end? Satisfy one or two erotica writers?
You were saying you don't allow erotica because of your readers. I am asking why are you allowing horror, thrillers, crime novels for your young readers, but not novels involving sex. I never said anyone should be forced to critique erotica and your main argument was young readers, not unwillingness of members to critique erotica.
Yes, there are two reasons we don't critique erotica. I'm not going to argue with you, just stating that this is our stance. We also don't critique gratuitous violence. Are we wrong there too?
We don't allow gratuitous anything in our group. Mainly because it reads like ass anyway and none of our editors want to waste their time on anything that isn't decent quality.
Sorry to barge in, but honestly i think @rhondak's replies are too confrontational. seriously. she didn't even mention you guys. you could have just ignored.
Sure we could have. Because that's what all the snowflakes expect everyone to do--either give in to them or ignore them. Surprise! This is the real world. Post passive aggressive stuff to the blockchain, you might just get a response that doesn't pander to you.
An excellent response rhondak, and I agree completely. Well said.