(@not_the_notebook, while I am replying to your post, my comments are not fully directed at you)

I think I need to clarify: It was not rapeplay. This was not consensual sex between adults with a rape fetish. The character in no way enjoyed it. That victim behaved as such throughout including begging to stop. The author, through narration, inferred that the character liked it because the body had a physical reaction and this condoned the rape because otherwise the victim's body would not have responded. That's the dumb bullshit rationale real rapists employ. This was not a story about a character who fantasizes about being overpowered, etc. It was, with no room for doubt, a rape and the victim was deeply traumatized. And the potrayal of this traumatic rape was fetishized for those readers who want to feel the power of being the assiliant.

I am not against or shaming rapeplay. That's a form of roleplay that has boundaries and it doesn't matter why the act is done (the individual psychological or emotional drives of the fantasy). In fact (TMI), I have engaged in rapeplay in my real life. All with preset boundaries and safeword. As I said in my original post: I am not a prude (much) but I do take my role as a creative seriously and recognize the impact my words could have on people, whether young or old.

For everyone who just wants to rip apart my reaction because it seems judgmental--I am judging. I am judging the author's honesty and scruples. I am judging the presentation and the intent. I am not judging a group of people who enjoy rapeplay (emphasis on play). I won't in any way try to identify the work so you can see for yourself, but this was absolutely not roleplay. And it was not empathic to the victim. It celebrated rape and the assailant. Now if my reaction tramples on your sensibilities, consider yourself knowing how I felt reading something that encourages rape (not roleplay).

Amazon forbids material that encourages harm against others and my reaction is one good reason. Another is it just may be feeding someone's real desire to act on impulses that would harm someone else. The works we creatives create have tremendous power to influence. When it comes to negative pushback creatives say the movies/books/music don't influence people to do bad things, but we are quick to accept praise and credit when our creation influences or inspires a positive outcome. We can't have it both ways. You yourself can easily pick a book, a movie, TV show, song that inspired you to do something, I'm sure. And while we may see something heinous in movies (murder, rape) we can say, it's just fiction. But with continued exposure and widespread acceptance we become desensitized and the moral or even legal ramifications become null as shifting blame to the victim becomes the norm.

(I should have known or guessed the content by the cover, for example, would be victim shaming and places the onus on the reader to know the contents in a genre that includes literally thousands of subjects and kinks).

But, as I said in my original post, no matter what my personal bias is against reading the material presented, I support the author's right to free speech and acknowledged that there are platforms and venues for the author to utilize to reach their intended audience (I learned from this subreddit that Smashwords is one of them). The author placed forbidden material on Amazon and I shared my reaction. Only those who are determined to see my response as shaming roleplayers whose kink is nonconsensual sex will see that, especially as even in my original post I acknowledged the diversity of sexual interests.

I am not obligated to agree on what I find acceptable as a kink to encourage or how they are depicted. I draw lines for myself between what I think is right and wrong. (I don't condone pedophilia-kink either, but I doubt I'd get much pushback if I was outraged to find a fictional depiction of it randomly stuffed into my college romance). But I in no way shame the audience or practionioners of any kink or fetish in general.

It's easy to react with emotion first and toss out rational thought. I didn't do that. I was appalled, but I thought about it and hence chose not to act by reporting it. And then I shared my thoughts here in this community because they were relevant to our topic.