{"id":3936,"date":"2019-02-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2019-02-13T20:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T19:35:20","slug":"the-crazy-stuff-that-is-parts-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2019\/02\/the-crazy-stuff-that-is-parts-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The crazy stuff that is parts of America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week I tried to publish my first Dutch naturist fiction book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A naturist book which is a crime story. As usual I chose a platform called Draft2Digital to get the book &#8216;out there&#8217;. That, combined with Amazon, gives me a good reach for books. Except this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine my surprise when I got an e-mail from Draft2Digital telling me that most online bookstores do not accept pornographic content on the cover of a book. Let me show you the cover:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HighTechRecherche_web_origineel.jpg\" alt=\"High-Tech Recherche\" class=\"wp-image-3937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HighTechRecherche_web_origineel.jpg 426w, https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/HighTechRecherche_web_origineel-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 85vw, 426px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I assume you are shocked over the pornographic content displayed here. If so, accept my apologies. If not, I&#8217;m glad to meet a human being with a sensible mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make sure I was indeed offending some policy, I went to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"wikipedia (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pornography\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia<\/a> to have a look at their (Wikipedia&#8217;s) definition of pornography: &#8220;Pornography (often abbreviated porn) is the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a man&#8217;s back and naked behind is <em>sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal<\/em> then I wonder what kind of people decide this image is exactly that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering the fact that Draft2Digital is an American company, I should not be surprised about this rejection. Still, being stubborn, I decided to try my luck at Amazon because there is a Dutch Amazon-website for books. And lo and behold&#8230; American company Amazon sent me this: <em>Congratulations, your book \u201cHigh-Tech Recherche\u201d is now live and available* for purchase in the Kindle Store!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to publish the e-book through a Dutch e-book distributor. This means it will<br>a) be a bit more expensive<br>b) not get to Apple iTunes or B&amp;N<br>but that&#8217;s something I&#8217;m not going to be bothered about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know, this is not my typical kind of post but I had to vent this somewhere, and this is as good a place as any. If you want to know more about the book, please let me know. The plan is to get an English version out too, and  I would like to point the Dutch visitors to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulkater.nl\">Dutch author website<\/a> where I will announce the book shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I tried to publish my first Dutch naturist fiction book. A naturist book which is a crime story. As usual I chose a platform called Draft2Digital to get the book &#8216;out there&#8217;. That, combined with Amazon, gives me a good reach for books. Except this one. Imagine my surprise when I got an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2019\/02\/the-crazy-stuff-that-is-parts-of-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The crazy stuff that is parts of America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,12],"tags":[122,268,479],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naktivism","category-nudism-2","tag-books","tag-porn","tag-prudishness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3939,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/3939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}