German Bookseller Causes Controversy Due to Erotic Books
A German bookseller has caused some controversy over some of the books that it sells. But the reasons behind this could be very surprising to many. According to a recent news reports, Weltbild, the largestmedia company in Germany has been involved in some controversy due to the factthat they sell some rather explicit pornographic materials like erotic books.Whilethey are not well known outside of Germany, Weltbild maintains an online bookstore that is very popular in Germany and is second only to Amazon.Thecontroversy is not really due to public outcry over the books, as Germany is acountry that is pretty liberal when it comes to issues related to sex or thesale of pornographic materials.It is rather the fact that the company isactually owned by the Catholic Church.This is not even an issue of the CatholicChurch owning some stock in the company, but rather the fact that Weltbild isowned eintirely by the Church.Of course, Weltbild does not sell only Erotic Booksbut also plenty of other...