# A Criticism Of the Adverstisements in the Time Edition of February 22nd, 2010

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 14, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criticism-of-the-adverstisements-in-the-time-edition-of-february-22nd-2010/528915 "2010-02-14T01:50:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-criticism-of-the-adverstisements-in-the-time-edition-of-february-22nd-2010/528915/72 "2010-02-16T16:50:11Z")

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> [@Argent\_Towers](#):
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> I am not going to discuss the specific book I recommended to **Curtis**

Oh, but I will. It’s obvious from your description and your recent obsession with it that you mean _Hogg_, a pornographic novel about an 11-year-old boy named “Cocksucker” and the men he happily services in graphic detail. Someone has been reverting the Wikipedia article, but here is a link to history page that shows a long and brutal synopsis. Reading it turned my stomach.

> **[Hogg (novel)](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hogg_%28novel%29&oldid=344287978)**
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> Hogg is a novel by American author Samuel R. Delany, written in 1969 and completed in 1995. The novel deals graphically with themes of murder, child molestation, incest, coprophilia, coprophagia, urolagnia, anal-oral contact, necrophilia and rape. It was conceptualized and written in 1969, with a further draft completed in 1973, and it was finally published with some further, though relatively minor, rewrites in 1995 by Black Ice Books. Two later editions have featured some corrections, the las...

The fact that, even after the recent kerfluffle, you would use this board to recommend that book to a 13 year old boy is astounding. At best, you are profoundly stupid and socially maladjusted. At worst…well, maybe there’s a reason you were so ardent in your defense of Cesario.

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