[bksvol-discuss] Re: Adult rating or not?
- From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:19:24 -0500
I don't see how anyone, child or adult, could avoid those words in the
course of everyday life because they are everyday words and one hardly
ever gets a warning that an everyday word is coming up. That is why I
consider hang-ups over such words to be ridiculous, but ridiculous or
not I suppose everyone has a right to their own hang-ups,. I just
don't see why I or anyone else should worry about keeping track of
those hang-ups and issuing warnings or restrictions. It is the
responsibility of the hung-up person to deal with her or his own
hang-ups.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are a few words, I think, e.g.,words that begin
> with f, and sh come to mind, that most people would
> consider obscene. I wouldn't consider "pissed off" to
> be obscene, nor, "bloody" in an exclamation, though in
> 19th-century England apparently it was unacceptable.
> As to profanity, I'm assuming swearing using the word
> "God" and "Hell" would be considered profanity by
> some. Anyway, I put the warnings in the long synopsis
> for anyone who doesn't want to read books containing
> those words rather than marking them adult. As you
> say, people can decide for themselves what they want
> to read if they have enough knowledge about what's in
> the book. smile.
>
> Cindy Ro
> --- Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> How can you tell what is obscene though? A couple of
>> years ago I had
>> someone start ranting at me for being obscene
>> because I had said that
>> someone was pissed off. It had never even occurred
>> to me that anyone
>> might consider that to be obscene. It seems to me
>> that it is better to
>> let others deal with their own hang-ups rather than
>> try to police
>> their reading materials for them.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Cindy Rosenthal
>> <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Bearing in mind that some members might not want
>> to
>> > read books with profanity or obscenity, torture or
>> a
>> > lot of sex, explicit or suggested, although I
>> don't
>> > rate them Adult I do put in the long synopsis that
>> the
>> > book contains whatever it is that I think such
>> readers
>> > might want to know about. I do rate some things
>> adult,
>> > usually books that have graphic descriptions of
>> sexual
>> > acts that to me are coarse or unpleasant. Parents
>> of
>> > children and young adults who think their children
>> are
>> > mature enough to read anything they want can give
>> > their permission--there is a form for this I
>> > understand--and then they can download whatever
>> they
>> > want.
>> >
>> > Cindy
>> >
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