Wow. That's just ridiculous. You'd think Amazon was a religious organization.
Yeah I know. And apparently others, such as Apple, are even worse. I'm sort of expecting mine to be rejected from there but let's see. It's interesting how offended a lot of reviewers get though, and that may be interpreted as customer pressure. For example I've seen all sorts of reviews where people say things like "I got to 55% and had to stop reading. This book had my blood boiling, it just felt wrong" and then rate it one or zero stars. I mean ffs, it's billed as a student-teacher romance, if that concept offends you why read it? Same goes for other erotica or any other genre. If the subject matter disgusts or bores or you by its very nature , don't read it. Or if you do, for god's sake don't leave a bloody review. It's like me reviewing an engineering textbook and writing "1-star, SO dull, can't believe how boring this was, couldn't get past chapter 1". So I think a problem for all these book sites is that people don't apply their own filters properly and then take offence. And then these offenderati are the most likely to mount various vocal campaigns and cause a headache/bad publicity for the book site. (Though I think in some circumstances what actually happens is that they got turned on, felt disgusted and ashamed with themselves, and then left a scathing review to atone and "cleanse" themselves).
Well you know, that's what I figured! There is so much vocal outrage at the moment over the issue of "underage", and people frothing with rage over the idea of a 22-year-old guy sleeping with a 17-year-old, that I'm pretty damn convinced that they're actually frothing elsewhere...