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Amazon's content guidelines are notoriously nonspecific. Offensive Content What we deem offensive is probably about what you would expect. I assume there are multiple reasons for this: ...
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2019-12-08T05:57:21Z (almost 5 years ago)
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[Amazon's content guidelines](https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A2TOZW0SV7IR1U) are notoriously nonspecific. > **Offensive Content** > > What we deem offensive is probably about what you would expect. I assume there are multiple reasons for this: - Offensive material is hard to narrow down to a set of well-defined guidelines (your question demonstrates an edge case for a seemingly-simple "no bestiality" rule). - They probably do most/all of their removal/banning by algorithm, so they might not even have a good, human-understandable definition to give you. - They have legal obligations and concerns, which means that being able to remove _whatever_ might cause problems can take precedence over being transparent to authors. There have been multiple cases of Amazon suddenly "cracking down" on erotica, or changing the guidelines - the ones I recall were in [2011](http://jakonrath.blogspot.co.il/2011/01/guest-post-by-selena-kitt-part-2.html) and [2013](http://accrispin.blogspot.co.il/2013/10/thoughts-on-great-erotica-panic-of-2013.html). So, any answer here is going to be guesswork, and might be subject to change with no warning. All that being said: - Fantastical creatures seem to be accepted as not treading on bestiality. There's certainly no dearth of werewolf erotica titles, and other shapeshifters as well. - As far as I can tell (though I am no expert), Amazon is unlikely to ban you -- if they do anything, it will be to remove your book. At which point you can make modifications (e.g. remove the chapter with the swan...), and re-upload. My own very quick skim of the internet has uncovered a [2013 guide to Amazon's content guidelines for erotica authors](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00U9UD9TA), as well as recommendations to seek and join a good erotica-writer forum, which will have the expertise you're looking for. If you find better, fuller, answers then this, it'd be great if you came back and filled us in :)
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