Amazon under fire for sale of pedophile guide book

8220;This is a joke,right? What reputable business would even consider allowing this book to be sold from their website?8221; said a visitor identified as 8220;Emerald Storm.8221; 8220;This is absolutely despicable.8221;

8220;Shame on Amazon for allowing such garbage to be sold on its site,8221; said another with the handle 8220;thirty something.8221;

The book,whose full title is 8220;The Pedophile8217;s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover8217;s Code of Conduct,8221; had received more than 305 8220;reviews8221; with 297 giving it a one-star rating,the lowest possible.

Most of the 8220;reviews8221; were appeals to Amazon to remove the book.

8220;Amazon,you might want to consider taking this horrid book off your website if you want to have any business this holiday season,8221; wrote 8220;ecirtap.8221;

8220;Shame on you,Amazon,for allowing a book like this to be uploaded for purchase! This book gives advice to people about something that is ILLEGAL in every state in this nation. It needs to be removed from the site immediately,8221; wrote another customer.

In a statement distributed to TechCrunch and other technology blogs Amazon said it 8220;believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable.

8220;Amazon does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts,however,we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions,8221; it said.

In a product description to sell the book,the author frames it as an attempt 8220;to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them,by establishing certain rules for these adults to follow.

8220;I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of pedosexuals,with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps liter sentences should they ever be caught,8221; Greaves says.