Care to provide a source for this? That's a huge claim which I'd wager you just fabricated out of thin air, not to mention it removes all agency from women, which is a huge tell on your part.
Let's say you're right, and I'm way off, and instead of being guilty of rape he's *merely* guilty of taking advantage of emotionally vulnerable women with mental health concerns. Is this that where we're drawing the line? That's who you want your kids reading? Rachamana litzlan. And you're writing it with such a blase way, like "who cares if he's chayav misah, at least it keeps the kids busy on those long shabbos afternoons."
Aren't we the ones who are famously highly discriminating in what enters our homes? On what our children see and and hear?
I don’t think it needs a source. I think it’s obvious to every male that’s been around the block that a frum married Jewish woman doesn’t usually just decide to trash her loving husband and family and have an impulsive fling. There is almost always an emotional vulnerability- she feels cherished, valued, admired, cared for in a way that she is missing, or she opens up emotionally and developed a close connection with a male and gets sucked into it. Sometimes a manipulative male can get her to believe he really cares for her. Sometimes starts unwittingly on both their parts. It is rarely a happy emotionally stable frum woman who rationally decides it would be nice to have a fling.
An author who is chayav misah for arayos is actually far less dangerous that one that has dangerous deos and espouses them in his books. Most on these forums would allow kids to read Harry Potter, who’s author claims she subtly stuck in a gay romantic relationship between two teenage boys. I don’t see too many protests about it. I’ve seen the chronicles of narnia in many jewish homes despite the author overtly selling a detailed glorification of J. and his sacrifice in the guise of Aslan. There are countless other such examples each far more pernicious than an author who gave in to taivah and was mezaneh with an eishes ish, even on multiple occasions. I appreciate someone who is careful not to bring anything other than gedolim books into his house but that’s not what we are discussing.
So the answer is no, most people don’t select books based on whether the author ate sefichei shviis, lent money with Ribbis, speaks Lashon Hara (more severe than arayos) or was over eishes ish. Now if it turns out that he was a pedophile and monster that is quite different.
I’m willing to wager that the Rabbonim of Bnei Berak who said to put away his books would be far more aghast at the content of the books that many Americans have in their homes. And I’m not even talking about racy romance novels and the like. I’m talking regular secular so called “clean books” that are found in the average JPF home. The Rabbanim of Bnei Brak are speaking to a crowd that has far higher standards in their selection of literature....
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