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dejadrew (dejadrew) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-12 22:07:00

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creator: fumi yoshinaga, medium: manga, theme: homosexuality, title: antique bakery

Amazon-fail and Yoshinaga-win within.
As many of you already know and are rightfully and righteously freaking out over, Amazon.com has started de-listing books with GLBT content from the Amazon rank sales charts. (Google-bombs away!)

Upon hearing this, with a sinking feeling, I started surfing Amazon's selection of graphic novels, and yup, they appear to have de-listed one of my favourite shounen-ai manga, featured below the cut.

"Oh, Miss Ito, you've got some cream on you..."

Yep, Sherlock Holmes he ain't. But that's no reason to drop his book from the charts. Bastards.

The truly WEIRD thing is, many of the same creator's less popular but far more explicit works are still in the rankings. Antique Bakery is actually more of a slice-of-life drama/comedy than a pure yaoi. The drawings of the cakes are more pornographic than any of the sex scenes. Seriously. I think I gained like twelve pounds just reading the damn thing.

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	suzene 2009-04-13 02:56 am UTC (link)
	I'm not sure that was in Clan, because from what I remember of that scene, it was Canon Sue and Dongdalar watching the mammoths rutting and getting off on it. Of course, this is Jean Auel. It's entirely possible that several such passages are scattered throughout the series and OHGODWHYDIDIREADTHOSEBOOKS?! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lieut_kettch 2009-04-13 05:38 am UTC (link)
	Musth (heh) have been The Mammoth Hunters/I>. Also, Dongdalar? Nice. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	suzene 2009-04-13 03:41 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks. I'm almost certain I picked that one up from 'Smart Bitches, Trashy Books'. (Reply to this) (Parent)

bluefall
2009-04-13 10:59 am UTC (link)

Heh. The first book was pretty sane and appealed to my incredibly unsophisticated inner proto-feminist when she read it for school, which is why I read the second one. Which was the very first erotica (I use the word loosely, but still I use it) slowly-blooming little thirteen-year-old-me had ever seen, which is why I read the rest of them. Sex! In detail! That had an emotional component and which the participants enjoyed! They weren't even filed in the romance section of the library, it was totally safe to check them out! Nobody knew!

Which in retrospect should probably make me embarrassed or something but mostly it just makes me really sad for my culture, that fucking Jean Auel was pretty much the full extent of what was available or offered to me at thirteen to explore or explain my sexuality beyond "sex is how disease is spread and babies are made, so don't do it." I feel kind of robbed, and profoundly thankful that I discovered fanfic soon after.

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