Twenty years after rattling censors with its blunt, sex‑positive take on early internet culture, Sex Bytes is back. Updated. Retitled. Already making waves.

The all‑new 2025 edition, Sex Bytes: The F*cked‑Up Truth About Tech & Sex, reflects significant updates while keeping the raw Q&A letters, day‑in‑the‑life porn webmistress diary entries, and no‑bullshit tone that made the original a cult classic. Every major retailer — Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, library distributors, international outlets — said yes.

Except Google Play Books.

Written by TechChick and released through TechChick Media, Sex Bytes was first published in 2003, documenting the messy intersection of sex, technology, and social politics in the dial‑up era. Part memoir, part cultural history, part unfiltered reader Q&A, it remains in 2025 an unapologetic time capsule from the wild west of the early web.

Amazon KDP approved the book in full — racy “Read Sample” and all — without relegating it to the so‑called “adult dungeon” that buries visibility for sexual content. Major digital retailers followed suit, distributing through PublishDrive to Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble Nook, Tolino, Scribd, OverDrive, Odilo, Bibliotheca, Rakuten Kobo, Playster, Uptobox, and more.

Only Google Play Books refused, pointing to a generic link to its Publisher Content Policies and declining to elaborate, even after TechChick provided documentation confirming original authorship and full rights ownership.

“I’ve read their policy, and Sex Bytes doesn’t violate it,” says TechChick. “It’s not porn – it’s memoir, reader correspondence, and a first-hand account of the early 2000s sex-tech space. It’s cultural history. But when platforms apply vague rules behind closed doors, anything about sex becomes suspect. And that erases voices, especially women’s voices, from the record.”

Adding to the irony, TechChick found multiple books with far more explicit content readily available on Google Play Books – while ad platforms like Reddit Ads, Quora Ads, and even adult network Crak Revenue also denied promotional access. The result? A book carried by global retailers and libraries, but blocked or throttled by a select few gatekeepers.

The refusal raises questions about Big Tech’s inconsistent handling of sexual content: if Amazon and Apple say yes, why does Google say no? Where is the line between content curation and censorship? And how many important stories about sex, technology, and cultural history are being quietly buried by opaque policies?

Sex Bytes is available now at getsexbytes.com and through all major digital booksellers – except Google Play Books.

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