Thanks for answering some of our questions, @michaelson. I feel like many points are now made quite a bit clearer. I have one issue I'd like to raise, though:
I get what you mean when you say that there's not really a place online right now where creators of erotica can freely post their content.
But the inclusion of topics like violence et.al does not mean that violence is glamorized. There are stories that incorporate violence simply because the narrative needs it. I'm thinking about @Maps' Vows of the Sentinel, which is quite violent in some parts – because the people in the story are broken, anxious, it's a time of war.
Then there's topics surrounding depression, PTSD etc., and these often include mentions of self-harm, drug abuse, they go deep into the human psyche. And I feel like there's no place at all to tell these stories online. Twitter recently banned the word "kill". On top of that, if you report someone for mentioning self-harm, they don't get help, they get shadowbanned – as if that would help them reaching out.
Mental illness is still so vilified and put under a taboo, that I have no idea where to put the stories involving MI that burn inside of me. Survivors of violence, of abuse (sexual or otherwise), of mental illness – do they not need avenues to publish their truth?
Why is it that the mention of violence alone leads to the assumption that violence is glorified?