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Have there ever been any fanfic writers who got into legal trouble (or any trouble other than a flame from some parent and a reader who got his internet privildges provoked? Cause i'm getting a tad irritated about all the insistance that minors stay far, far away from the evil slash. One: you did your legal duty when you warned us. No one's likely to be suing you over one lost minor reading your page. Relax a little. Two: unless every last one of your stories is NC-17, demanding we leave your entire site is a bit over the freakin' top. And I swear, no matter how few and far between the ones who actually believe that smut is baaaaad for minors are, they are going to send me into a fucking snit one of these days. Grar!
(Note, btw, how I still count myself among 'us minors', even though according to Belgian law, I've never been of illegal age to read smut. Whoo. Novel concept, huh, slashers from countries outside the US? Fuckers.)
There is a reason none of my list require age statements. I did that quite deliberately, as a way to flip the whole fucking (smut-writing) world the two-fingered salute. It went by unnoticed (duh), but I'm still glad I made it.
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I totally agree
I mean, I've been reading trashy romance novels since I was about ten, and though they weren't as explicit back then as they are now, they were still thought of as pretty racy.
Not to mention I've been reading Jackie Collins (RPFic for the masses with changed names/circumstances/times) since I was fifteen, and everyone thinks she writes such explicit stuff. I just finished her latest one a couple of weeks ago, and although it was a good read and fun to pick who the celeb characters were based on, I've read much more explicit stuff in other books.
But, like some said, I do believe in initial warnings.
I've never required age statements, though on one list I had the over eighteen thing in the descript, only as a CYA, though, I knowingly let someone underage on it, because I thought she could handle it.
Speaking of, did you get my mail about that? I sent it a couple of days ago, and said yes, and that I wanted it on joannec@hwy.com.au, in case you didn't get it.