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AFA boycotts Walden over Blue Moon Books. (American Family Association; Waldenbooks Inc.)

Publishers Weekly

| May 31, 1991 | Reid, Calvin | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

AFA Boycotts Walden Over Blue Moon Books

Once again the conservative and activist American Family Association is boycotting Waldenbooks stores, claiming this time that the chain has added "child pornography to the line of pornography they are now selling."

Last fall AFA began calling for a boycott, claiming that K mart, through its Waldenbooks subsidiary, "is one of the largest retailers of pornography in America."

At the center of the controversy is Grove Press founder Barney Rosset, who now publishes Blue Moon Books, a line of Victorian and neo-Victorian erotica, which AFA has described as containing "sadomasochistic torture, rape and sodomy inflicted …

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