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Well that's just silly. Not making fun of it or anything, it's just that compared to every other possible form of shitting kink, that's by far the least offensive and the most potentially humorous imo.

Also, not to keep playing into the stereotype that I'm some naive, sheltered idiot, but I didn't know about thisvid until this exact moment. And considering the things on the front page I'm like really? Pants shitting is the thing they were so offended by that that had to remove it?

Again I hate to come off as a prude, but all the porn on that site seems fucking gross to me. Bunch of closeups of hairy man assholes...

Grandma: Oh, it was for Star Trek. Just little stories about Kirk and Spock, you know?

Me:

It's unfortunate that most of the people who care about archiving problematic things actually support the content of those things. Before finding your blog the most comprehensive suppressed book "list" I found was this (explanation here) which was done by someone who supports...about 80% of the books? Like, it was made by an anti-semitic white supremacist who doesn't think highly of women, and who mostly promoted the books as "the secret truth they don't want you to read." Which...not really the vibe I was looking for (to put it mildly).

One of the reasons I think your blog is so cool is because you actually commit to anti-censorship activism, while many just use it to protect their beliefs. Kind of sad that both free speech beliefs and good ol' morbid curiosity (my motivation) aren't commonly thought of as reasons to promote banned things.

Yeah, this Ask isn't exaggerating btw 😓 (see below-the-cut for screenshots of some choice comments from that thread 👇)

I know I probably come off as unaffected by negative criticism, but it turns out that having dozens of people openly call me a child sexual predator strangely gets under my skin just a smidge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm actually only now starting to dip my toes back into Reddit because I got such an overwhelmingly negative reaction. Specifically on... I think it was r/bannedbooks, r/archivists, and r/extremehorror.

Some other subreddits were a bit more receptive. But I was honestly really bummed out that those ones hated my stuff, because they seemed like the exact communities that would be interested, right?

Having said all that, I'm also incredibly naive and staggeringly stupid sometimes. It unironically never occurs to me that people might assume I'm a pervert for defending a fictional short story entitled "Buttfucking a 10-Year-Old Girl" (which was declared criminally obscene by the US government in 2021, with the author sentenced to 40 years in prison, no I am not making that up).

And really I need to stop being surprised by those reactions because, like you said, most normal humans apparently only defend controversial works if they actually support the subject matter (very stupid).

Now, without further ado...

Okay well first off that series of hentai manga anthologies is actually spelled EROGROS (『エログロス』). Don't ever try to get me to slip up on the details of fucked up publications 😏

Your Ask made me briefly look through the anthology. Horrible stuff. Dreadful. Repulsive. Nightmarish.

But I'm very glad it exists! I do love seeing new forms of intense, highly-specific erotic artistry - no matter how revolting the content may be. I just can't help it - when I see artists and readers who have a sincere, unapologetic passion for something super niche, it just makes me happy that there's a way for them to express their innermost feelings in a safe and creative way.

If I can continue speaking on the general subject of guro hentai manga:

The only author / artist I recognized in the EROGROS collection was Waita Uziga 「氏賀Y太」, who appears in each volume. He's best known as the author of what might actually be one of the most offensive, unethical works of fiction I have ever come across (and that's really saying something):

Uziga's infamous collection, Modern Stories of the Bizarre (『真・現代猟奇伝』, Shin Gendai Ryoukiden), retells a number of actual true-crime stories from recent Japanese history in horrific, pornographic detail, with little respect for the victims or their loved-ones. This has long-been one of the more ethically-fraught examples I could think of when it comes to freedom of expression, and I actually remain undecided as to whether I think it should be legally allowed.

Coincidentally, I also found this same debate raging in the comments to that manga on Exhentai, going back over a decade lol:

Having said that, even something as repulsive as this subject matter isn't without it's own artistry, as seen in this double-page splash during the story of real-life mixed-race Japanese teenaged serial killer Ryuichi Tsukamoto:

I need some food that's really spicy, I've tried the Taco Bell fire sauce but I'm looking for something with just a little more bite to it.

Here are links to the two posts I reference: