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Amazon Removes Yaoi Manga Titles From Kindle Store
Repossessed writes "Amazon is now cracking down on Yaoi manga, with several titles that have been available on the Kindle since 2009 being delisted and others now being rejected, according to Digital Manga Publisher. DMP has also stated that Amazon has not given any rationale for the rejections and removals, and Amazon has not been answering emails or phone calls from journalists asking about the subject."
Bullshit, yaoi is just gay hentai, (where as yuri is lesbian hentai). Shotacon is, usually gay, hentai with little boys, (and lolicon is hentai with little girls, if you were just dying to know).
It's really only an issue for the Kindle folks right now. Other readers (Nook, Kobo, ect) can use EPUB files, available from many different sources. If Amazon starts driving smaller stores out of business or the other stores start censoring as well, then it might be cause for concern. As it is, you can still find Yaoi from Barnes and Noble:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/King-of-Debt/Sanae-Rokuya/e/2940012508836/?itm=1&USRI=king+of+debt
Strange as that is wrong
"Stories focusing on sexual relationships between males, normally aimed at a female readership. May contain quite explicit sexual scenes. The more explicit titles tend to be shrink-wrapped." [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Yaoi+manga&tbs=dfn:1&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=9IDPTZ2-L4mjtgf7hrX6DQ&ved=0CBYQkQ4] we may not like it, but some people do and it is no child porn so next excuse?
look at the cover of this manga and tell us they are kids:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/King-of-Debt/Sanae-Rokuya/e/2940012508836/?itm=1&USRI=king+of+debt
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I'm going to go ahead and be the first commenter on this article to own up to being a Yaoi fan. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to purchase a copy of The Color of Love.
OK, yes, the submitter should have explained the term. (Too bad you don't have an internet connection that you could use to look it up.)
"Manga" is the Japanese word for "comics". In English usage, it means "comics from japan", which are usually sold as 200-ish-page graphic novels.
"Yaoi" is a vaguely defined term coined from a Japanese phrase, referring to manga written about romanticized male/male relationships. They are written and drawn mostly by women, and read mostly by women, though some gay men enjoy them too. Some yaoi manga are sexually explicit, but usually softcore in nature rather than hardcore. (Japanese culture shies away from drawing cocks.) Quite a few of them are tame enough to be sold to minors in the US: kissing, hand-holding, intense hugging, etc. The characters in them are often young (as is typical in coming-of-age stories), and in some cases are below the age of consent in many parts of the US. But since A) they aren't real people, and B) the drawings aren't usually pornographic per se, it would terribly inaccurate to call it "child porn".
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
King of Debt (Yaoi Manga) - Nook Edition
Taketora, The King of Debt, is notorious for borrowing money - money that he never pays back. He and Souta have been friends since college, and Souta just can't bring himself to cut off his freeloading friend. But when Souta suddenly loses his job, the only one he can turn to is The King of Debt himself. only the pieces of Taketora don't quite add up. It turns out he lives in a luxury apartment complex, drives and exotic car, and wears designer suits?! So why is he borrowing money from Souta, and why is he so intent on paying back his debt with his body?
Did you seriously believe this is the life of a children? And by the way child pornography is about prepubescent children, not just anyone under 20 or what ever arbitrary age your sick moral values dictate. I like when obvious troll get modded up... fun fun fun.
Who was talking about child porn? or NAMBLA?
These are romance novels-- the majority of this material I don't even believe qualifies as "softcore".
Can someone mod this dimwit as "troll", please?
"whatever fucked up agenda you're pushing in trying to link everything gay with child rape."
if you read the wikipedia article, it basically proves that THEY are the ones trying to link 'everything gay with child rape'. that is my problem with it. these are child molestation comics, and they are trying to present it as 'homosexual comics'. gay rights people have been fighting this stereotype for years, but the child abuse people keep wanting to conflate the two, as if somehow its 'liberation' to be able to molest children. so im not the one doing the conflating, the NAMBLA people are.
as for trying to say 'oh this title and this title were banned, and they are not really about child molestation'...great! fine. maybe its not what it looks like. maybe amazon is just screwing up or something. maybe amazon messed up.
however, thats not the argument the pro- yaoi people are using - they didnt mention which specific titles are banned. they dont care. so why should i have to mention them when refuting their argument? their argument is not about specific titles, it is about the whole category of yaoi, which they portray as 'cutesy man-on-man action for women', which is clearly not true, and clearly disingenuous and clearly not accurate. yaoi, as a genre, is about children molesting each other, including anal rape, which is explicitly mentioned in the wikipedia article. these people are trying to argue that white is black and up is down. its simply not true.
these so-called freedom activists do not give a flying fuck about freedom of speech for other people (certainly, they right now wish i were banned off slashdot).