Amazon.com Inc has decided to sell a book that offers advice to pedophiles. The book, titled "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct", has caused outrage and concern. This book will be released on Amazon's Kindle (e-reader) and not print. Amazon hasn't responded to the controversy but they are allowing this book to be sold on their site. Amazon allows authors to release their books as long as they share revenue. Many are questioning if Amazon really has a policy or list of things that would be deemed offensive. Amazon does ban materials that are offensive which is why many are baffled.
Yahoo! described the book as follows: "The author of "The Pedophile's Guide," listed as Philip R. Greaves II, argues that pedophiles are misunderstood, as the word literally means to love a child. The author adds that it is only a crime to act on sexual impulses toward children, and offers advice that purportedly allows pedophiles to abide by the law."
Why Amazon would even want to allow this book is beyond me. The only reason one can think is that Amazon only wants to make money so why not allow such offensive material? The point is, the only advice the author should be giving is how to not be sick in the head and find someone their own age. I would need to read the book to really understand what the author is trying to argue or point out but based on the title and the summary it doesn't sound like something we should be buying and selling. Maybe the author is or once was a pedophile. Amazon should just get rid of it all together.
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