: Re: Would Amazon allow sex between transformed humans (animal/object) with normal humans I'm concerned about what Amazon will allow since their guidelines are so vague, or in the case of what I am

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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:

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 and 2013.

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, 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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