Comment by [deleted] on 16/07/2015 at 21:06 UTC*

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View submission: Let's talk content. AMA.

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Comment by antiproton at 16/07/2015 at 21:25 UTC

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Formulating ideas on how to accomplish illegal acts, however, should be banned and reported to legal authorities.

There's a slippery slope here. Are we reporting people for asking about steroid use? What about pot horticulture? What about the bittorrent subs?

What if I started a sub that was about overthrowing the government? The US was founded on the principle of replacing a government you don't find representative of your interests, but it would hard to make the argument that plotting to overthrow the government is 'legal'.

Sex crimes are seen as particularly abhorrent, so it's easy to make blanket statements about banning people and calling the cops. But when you start bandying about terms like "illegal acts" in an attempt to not have to list out all the things you find objectionable, you start capturing things that are *technically* illegal but generally accepted.

It's not at all cut and dried, which is why this conversation has to happen at all.

Comment by His_elegans at 16/07/2015 at 21:59 UTC

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r/bdsmerotica contains plenty of rape erotica. It's almost always labeled as non-con (non-consentual) or con non-con (consentual non-consent), so you can avoid it if you want. There's no question that the non-con stuff would be illegal if actually performed. But if people get off on rape fantasies, who's hurt by that? You can avoid it if you want. I just don't want BDSM erotica to go the same way as r/hotrapestories, which I have never visited but has been banned.

Comment by Lupusam at 16/07/2015 at 21:36 UTC

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Illegal in what country? The country it's posted from, the country the servers are housed in, any country it's read in?

Comment by [deleted] at 16/07/2015 at 21:50 UTC*

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Comment by kolebee at 16/07/2015 at 21:42 UTC

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So what about forums discussing specific harm reduction approaches in the context of illegal drugs?

And that's just one example of why policing speech is not a good idea, even if you try to follow specific, well-intentioned rules.

Comment by starlit_moon at 16/07/2015 at 21:30 UTC

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I don't think it is fantasies though. Or at least the post I read this morning sounded like the guy was going to go through with it.

Comment by Mattyoungbull at 17/07/2015 at 02:47 UTC

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Bukowski wrote a short story called '6 inches' where the narrator describes his emasculation in a Kafka-esque manner. Eventually becoming so small, that the woman can keep him in her purse, and use him as a dildo whenever she wants - regardless of his consent. I think this type of story meets the sort of standard your comment sets. and I think that since public libraries carry the work, reddit shouldn't have an issue doing the same.