Amid threats of boycotts, Amazon.com drops book promoting child molestation (another one remains)

After receiving thousands of complaints and threats of boycotts, online retailer Amazon.com has removed a book which defends the act of pedophilia and advises molesters on how to protect themselves from prosecution.

The electronic book, "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct" was written by Philip R. Greaves II and is available for Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader.and can be purchased for $4.79.

The book’s description, written by the author, reads: “This is my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certain rules for these adults to follow. I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of pedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps liter sentences should they ever be caught.”

The e-book was published on Oct. 28 using Amazon Digital Services. By late Wednesday, the book was actually ranked as the 65th most popular paid titles on the Kindle store.

Initially, Amazon was defiant in the face of mounting criticism, and on Wednesday, released the following statement: “Amazon.com believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable.”

However, by Thursday morning, the book was dropped from the site.

While Amazon removed this infamous title, another book which justifies child molestation remains for sale on the site. The paperback was originally published in 2000, and re-printed in 2009 is entitled: “Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers,” and is still for sale on Amazon.com.

The first paragraph of the book’s introduction reads: “This is a book about boys and men. It is also specifically about those boys and men, related or not, who share a very special love for one another. A love that may, along with providing companionship, protection, nurturing, and material needs, include an active consensual sexual component. A love that, since other equivalent terms have become hopelessly corrupted in modern usage, has come to be known as “boylove.”

“Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers” was written by David L. Reigel and sells on Amazon for $14.95.

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