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> Where's your citation that most are pornographic?

I used an imprecise term for the high percentage that have sexual content. If you prefer, I'll rename it to "books grossly inappropriate for minors."

As for PEN.org, I do not trust their honesty, point blank. They have every incentive to be dishonest or to define the issue as narrowly as possible. I might as well quote Exxon about the harms of CO2.




Anyone under the age of 21 is a minor in the US. There's a wide range of "minors" who are well into/past puberty. You can have age restrictions without having blanket bans or arbitrary and poorly defined categories of content.

You're also conflating everything that describes or mentions sexuality as "pornographic". Pornography is specifically defined as something designed to sexually arouse the consumer. That's not the same thing at all.


So, no citation.

Got it.




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