General Disclaimer

"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."
Justice Thurgood Marshall

"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought -- not free thought for those who agree with us, but freedom of the thought that we hate."
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"The Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, and to be generally free from governmental intrusions into one's privacy and control of one's thoughts."
U.S. Supreme Court, in unanimous decision Stanley v. Georgia

(Apologies in advance for the length, but in the society we're stuck with, these stories need a larger disclaimer than bland-vanilla junk. Most of this should go without saying. Some of it is important to say.)

"Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritative regime."
Justice Potter Stewart

If you're under three years old, or even if you're not, and you're able to read these words, hurray! More power to you, read on, and don't let any stupid prig tell you that you're not allowed to read a story until you've attained some stupid arbitrary age that changes from country to country, and year to year. But if you're under the stupid arbitrary age for your location at the particular time you read this, keep quiet about it. At least, don't tell me. I don't need to know.

"The fact that society may find speech offensive is not a sufficient reason for suppressing it."
Justice Stevens

The author does not condone abuse of any person, by any other person, regardless of the ages, genders, heritage, or political or biological relationships between any of the persons involved. By 'abuse' the author means any sort of activity done against the will or without the knowledge of any participant directly involved. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Tying up, locking up, or otherwise restricting the freedom of an unwilling person unless the restriction is necessary to prevent the abuse under this definition of other persons.
• Inflicting pain or injury or humiliation or fear on an unwilling person regardless of motivation, including parents or any other person spanking a child, or even threatening to do so, unless necessary to prevent worse pain or injury to them or someone else.
• Involving any person in an activity that person is unwilling to be involved in, without some overriding safety concern. Activities someone willingly wants to be part of are not prohibited.
• Drugging or otherwise impairing the judgement of someone and then including them in activities they would not agree to if they were unimpaired. Activities they would agree to are unaffected.
• Using or supporting the use of force or threats to interfere in, disrupt, or prevent the activities of others not committing abuse under this definition, including arresting people for non-abusive behavior, or voting for laws that threaten such arrests.

Any person guilty of abuse under this definition should be arrested to prevent such abuse. Unfortunately, there aren't enough jail cells to hold all the assholes who are guilty of one or more of those five things (but mostly the fifth).

"The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some other people think to be wrong."
Lord Chief Justice Halisham

'Abuse' does not include any sort of play or activity done for the the enjoyment of and with the full knowledge and willing participation of everyone directly involved. This is true regardless who they are.

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all."
Oscar Wilde

Fantasies are fantasies, and are not real life. If any of the characters in these stories are cruel, evil, and immoral, nobody should act that way in real life, nor tolerate anyone else acting that way in real life. Nor should anyone object, in real life, to anyone else's fantasies, nor anyone else's choice of activity that they're not involved in. Anyone who does is an asshole, and if they act on it, destroying other people's happiness for no reason other than their own distaste, they are the ones who are cruel, evil, and immoral.

"There is no impression of life, no manner of seeing it and feeling it, to which the plan of the novelist may not offer a place."
Henry James, The Art of Fiction

My stories always involve girls age 4 to 12. If that bothers you, or isn't what you like in a story, then don't read them (is that so hard?), or blame yourself for any distress you experience.

"The rock on which liberty stands is freedom of expression. ... The giving and receiving of information, speculation, criticism, fantasy, the exchange within the entire range of our intellectual capacities, is the freedom that brings the others into being."
Ian McEwan

All of these stories are fantasy, and in over 30 years of reading and writing stories like this, I have never hurt any real person, nor would I tolerate anyone else doing so. Enjoying fantasies like this does not and need not make you a monster in real life, as long as you treat real people with respect (including anyone who likes these fantasies).

"As writers and artists, we cannot stand quietly by as we watch our fellow writers and journalists pressed into silence or risking prosecution and often drastic punishment for the mere act of communicating their thoughts."
Salman Rushdie plus over 200 writers from around the world (who have all felt secure enough to publish under their real names)

To everyone who likes this sort of fantasy, feel free to enjoy them, and please send me comments!

"Let men read, and let men dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
Voltaire