Censored on Kindle!

My last published book, David's Spankings, has just been censored on Amazon Kindle.

This is the initial email I received:

Hello,

We’re contacting you regarding the following book:

B0BQT2894Z
David's Spankings: A young man's journey into domestic discipline at the hands of his aunt and her submissive lesbian love-partner.

During our review process, we found that your book violate our content guidelines. As a result, we are not offering your book for sale on Amazon.

As a reminder, violations of our content guidelines may negatively impact your account status and you may also lose access to optional KDP services.

You can find our content guidelines on the KDP website:
https://kdp.amazon.com/help/topic/G200672390

If you have questions or believe you've received this email in error, reply to this message.

Amazon KDP

Yogesh
Amazon Content Review Team

If you look at the pertinent section of the referenced content guidelines, it's very short and not of much help:

Offensive content

We don’t sell certain content including content that we determine is hate speech, promotes the abuse or sexual exploitation of children, contains pornography, glorifies rape or pedophilia, advocates terrorism, or other material we deem inappropriate or offensive.

I was very careful with the age of all participants. The main character is David, aged eighteen. I was also very careful dealing with consent. Everything done is 100% consensual and with safewords explicitly discussed. I consider it to be quite educational in those regards. My cast of characters is very diverse in terms of sexual preferences: gays, bis, lesbians, and straights. There is no incest in it. David's aunt and mother spank him for disciplinary purposes (with his consent), but there is no sex. David does have sex with his "aunt" Chrissie, who is only an aunt by lesbian marriage to his bio-aunt. David does consent reluctantly to gay sex, doing it in exchange for having straight sex later. And he winds up liking the gay sex.

Of course it's "pornography", but TONS and TONS of stuff on Kindle is pornography, so that really doesn't narrow it done. Yes, yes, I am over the top, I know. But IT IS a work of art.

As per the email, I wrote back asking for clarification, but received essentially the same email back from them five times. Here was my last try getting it escalated.

Hello,

As stated in our content guidelines, we reserve the right to determine what content we consider to be appropriate. This content includes both the cover art image and the content within the book.

For more details about KDPs Content Guidelines, visit Help:
https://kdp.amazon.com/help/topic/G200672390

I'm sorry, but we can't offer any additional insight on this matter.

Regards,
Amazon KDP

Manikandan
Amazon Content Review Team

-----Previous Message-----

Hello,

We received the information you submitted for the following book(s):

B0BQT2894Z David's Spankings: A young man's journey into domestic discipline at the hands of his aunt and her submissive lesbian love-partner.

We need some additional time to review everything. We'll be in touch within 5 business days. We appreciate your patience.

Thanks for using Amazon KDP

Manikandan
Amazon Content Review Team

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Please see earlier responses. It feels as if I'm talking to a robot. As I've previously stated, I've read those guidelines and they are not helpful. I am presuming you banned my book referring to the part that says "or other material we deem inappropriate or offensive." That is no guidance at all! I have read many books on kindle that contains material that could be deemed offensive or pornographic by you.

My book is educational about alternative lifestyles, educational to practitioners of BDSM, and a work of art. Please escalate this to a manager and ask them to respond with which specific parts offend so I can rewrite and resubmit in all good faith.

Thank you,

Julie

As I say, all the responses look as if they are either auto-generated by an AI or fully templated as they seem to not even acknowledge my question.

I was not really making any money from the books personally. It is literally all going to a very worthy cause directly into a bank account that supports somebody who works tirelessly for a charity that helps people greatly. So thank you for that, Amazon! Grrrrrrr!

As a result of this censorship, I'm releasing the book here on blogger free of charge as a pdf. I'll figure out how to make it more e-reader friendly later.

I believe it is still accessible to you if you purchased it on Kindle, but you cannot anymore find it or buy it on Kindle. My apologies to everybody who bought and paid for the book on Kindle. I really, really, appreciate your support and encouragement, and the money went to a very good cause.

New links are posted wherever I previously had amazon links. You can find the download page here: Download Page.