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To think this is horrific? TW CSAM in a Novel

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sellotapechicken · 25/03/2025 18:39

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/sydney-daddy-little-toy-book-tori-woods-b2720934.html Australian author has been arrested after writing a book about a man lusting after the barely legal daughter of his best friend, but the entire premise of the book is that he’s fancied her since she was 3 I agree she needs to be arrested!

Oh And to make it worse the dedication in the beginning was ‘I’ll never look at my kids the same way again’ her kids are under 5 years old

Sydney erotic novel author charged after outrage over ‘child abuse material’ in book

Erotic novel ‘Daddy’s Little Toy’ has been accused of ‘featuring paedophilia’, while the author has called the outcry a ‘big misunderstanding’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/sydney-daddy-little-toy-book-tori-woods-b2720934.html

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Punzel · 25/03/2025 19:12

Why would she be arrested and not Bret Easton Ellis for writing American Psycho?
Writing about CSAM is disgusting and actually yes, I almost think for the dedication in the book she should probably be looked at/questioned. But fundamentally we shouldn’t be arresting authors for writing fiction.

EveryKneeShallBow · 25/03/2025 19:08

sarsaparillatree · 25/03/2025 18:59

I haven't read the book, so how can I judge? Also people write books about all sorts of unthinkable things - murder, rape, torture - it doesn't mean that they would consider doing them or condone them.

I think (having not seen more than the headline posted) that it’s the fact that she’s referred to as a writer of erotic fiction that puts it in a different light than Lolita.

ProustianMadeleine · 25/03/2025 19:04

sarsaparillatree · 25/03/2025 18:59

I haven't read the book, so how can I judge? Also people write books about all sorts of unthinkable things - murder, rape, torture - it doesn't mean that they would consider doing them or condone them.

This.

SwanOfThoseThings · 25/03/2025 19:04

Are they going to ban Nabokov's Lolita as well?

I've never heard of the author, so can't comment on the literary merit of the book.

sarsaparillatree · 25/03/2025 18:59

I haven't read the book, so how can I judge? Also people write books about all sorts of unthinkable things - murder, rape, torture - it doesn't mean that they would consider doing them or condone them.

Mickeychampionwhatgoodami · 25/03/2025 18:58

From a poisoned mind to a poisonous pen.
That's awful.

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sellotapechicken · 25/03/2025 18:42

Oh and it’s called ‘daddies little toy’

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