Amazon forbids ebooks that feature bestiality. But there’s an audience out there who wants bestiality smut. How the supply meets the demand is thanks to a loophole in Amazon’s rules – Amazon forbids bestiality with existent, non-extinct animals. So bestiality with extinct animals or mythical animals is just fine and can be sold on Amazon.
So … you want to sell stories about people having sex with horses? No-go. But stories about people having sex with unicorns? No problem. Having sex with wolves? Not at all. But having sex with werewolves? You can have that! Bulls? Nope! But you can have a minotaur…
It’s also why ‘dinosaur erotica’ is a surprisingly thriving genre on Amazon. They’re extinct, so they don’t fall under the bestiality ban.
And grey areas are risky on that business. Amazon may or may not consider those banned, depending on which person and/or AI is examining your book, what day of the week it is, and whether or not Mercury is in retrograde. And if they decide it’s banned, they take it down, you wasted all the effort of writing it, and your account gets a strike, maybe to get permabanned.
So it’s generally a good idea to play it safe.
(Oh, you wanted an official ruling from Amazon about whether or not Sicilian Wolf bestiality is okay? Well fuck you! Because Amazon refuses to provide such clarity, and all of this is 90% based on trial and error – what people have and haven’t been banned for – because Amazon’s rules for NSFW content are opaque, mysterious, and constantly subject to change without notice. Have fun!)
If you type “minotaur” into Amazon, the 5th suggested search that pops up is “minotaur romance book.” There’s a definite market.
This is a quirk of Amazon’s publishing rules:
Amazon forbids ebooks that feature bestiality. But there’s an audience out there who wants bestiality smut. How the supply meets the demand is thanks to a loophole in Amazon’s rules – Amazon forbids bestiality with existent, non-extinct animals. So bestiality with extinct animals or mythical animals is just fine and can be sold on Amazon.
So … you want to sell stories about people having sex with horses? No-go. But stories about people having sex with unicorns? No problem. Having sex with wolves? Not at all. But having sex with werewolves? You can have that! Bulls? Nope! But you can have a minotaur…
It’s also why ‘dinosaur erotica’ is a surprisingly thriving genre on Amazon. They’re extinct, so they don’t fall under the bestiality ban.
So… if you explicitly say it’s a dire wolf, a Florida black wolf, a Sicilian wolf, etc…
Needs to be anthro is basically the loophole.
Well “anthro” in everyway that doesn’t matter. So it slips by the censors.
Kind of a grey area, I think.
And grey areas are risky on that business. Amazon may or may not consider those banned, depending on which person and/or AI is examining your book, what day of the week it is, and whether or not Mercury is in retrograde. And if they decide it’s banned, they take it down, you wasted all the effort of writing it, and your account gets a strike, maybe to get permabanned.
So it’s generally a good idea to play it safe.
(Oh, you wanted an official ruling from Amazon about whether or not Sicilian Wolf bestiality is okay? Well fuck you! Because Amazon refuses to provide such clarity, and all of this is 90% based on trial and error – what people have and haven’t been banned for – because Amazon’s rules for NSFW content are opaque, mysterious, and constantly subject to change without notice. Have fun!)
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/cda06f38-9c67-42c3-89a1-b6d016fbc5aa
I was hoping somebody would link this book haha