tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post3693194555043031784..comments2023-11-02T06:50:42.777-07:00Comments on billierosie: How far can you go? The musings of Rose W.billierosiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-58058530942003848422015-05-13T00:21:21.240-07:002015-05-13T00:21:21.240-07:00AND what about "Big Foot erotica?" What&...AND what about "Big Foot erotica?" What's that if it's not besiality? It's a whole genre in Amazon's listings! billierosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-35656425652203051082015-05-12T15:22:46.709-07:002015-05-12T15:22:46.709-07:00Amazon is more than getting on my nerves...a huge ...Amazon is more than getting on my nerves...a huge Goliath who seems to make up the rules as he goes along. My reviews get rejected if I inadvertently use an expletive, even if I am quoting from a book that is on Amazon's listing. An enthusiastic expletive is regarded as a "profanity".<br /><br />But check out just one book I found on Amazon's listing. Final Therapy by Alison Heather..in the first chapter, the heroine has sex with her horse, her two large dogs and her Grandfather...see what I mean?billierosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-25597963019357398842015-05-09T09:21:45.191-07:002015-05-09T09:21:45.191-07:00I would like to find a British or European royal m...I would like to find a British or European royal marriage in which the spouses are NOT even distantly related by blood. However, consanguinity has been used as an excuse (not an honest reason) for ending a marriage. When Henry VIII wanted to get rid of his wife and marry his mistress, he appealed to the Pope for permission (because marriage was one of the sacraments). Henry's excuse was that his wife had formerly been married to his late brother, so he wanted the marriage annulled, as though it had never taken place, because presumably, having sex with your brother's widow was icky and immoral. (Note that this happens in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, when Queen Gertrude marries her late husband's brother, and her son Hamlet Junior essentially accuses her of being a depraved slut.) In various tragedies (going back to Oedipus), characters who discover that they've had sex with a blood relative have to die, or at least suffer a lot, even if they didn't know they were committing incest at the time.Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-86784617158043995632015-05-09T09:10:52.991-07:002015-05-09T09:10:52.991-07:00This is a thoughtful post, worth repeating! Laws i...This is a thoughtful post, worth repeating! Laws in various jurisdictions are also arbitrary about what counts as "illegal" sex. The age of sexual consent has changed numerous times in various countries. When my mother was growing up in New York City in the 1930s, she knew a pair of first cousins from a close-knit Jewish family who fell in love and wanted to marry, but they couldn't legally do it in New York State, so they found another state where they could. There was some precedent for that: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the President and First Lady at that time, were related by blood before they were ever related by marriage. (Eleanor didn't have to change her family name.)Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-28442955702645643722015-05-08T06:22:41.318-07:002015-05-08T06:22:41.318-07:00I always thought Amazon's standards are pretty...I always thought Amazon's standards are pretty arbitrary. In fact, as you point out, our culture seems to have pretty arbitrary understandings as to what counts as "ok" and what doesn't when it comes to sex.<br /><br />Amazon is kind of getting on my nerves lately. I may move all my books to smashwords.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com