The shame of Fred Head

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Diary of an adult runaway: Right, said Fred!

aka Head v. Porn

Currently, there’s a large debate going on in the world of Romance–and in Texas.

Fred Head (Democrat, if you can believe it) is running for Texas Comptroller against Susan Combs.

From Mr. Head’s website:

Susan Combs claims to be a person of high moral standards. Her record of writing, having published and selling a pornographic book clearly shows that Susan Combs is a two faced, hypocrite who was obviously more concerned with her literary career and seeing her name in print than the morals of the young People of Texas who are exposed to her 222 page book, A Perfect Match, which has her name at the top of every other page – – – a clear testament to Susan Combs’ insatiable ego and desire to see her name in print.

I’m not even going to debate the ridiculousness of the statement about her ego. Has Mr. Head never read a book before?

More from his website:

Susan Combs has shown no remorse and made no apology for writing her pornographic book. Fred Head hereby challenges Susan Combs to fully explain to the People of Texas why she wrote a pornographic book, apologize to the People and withdraw from the race for Comptroller of Public Accounts.

And now she should apologize for the wonderful accomplishment of not only finishing a book, but managing to get it published? The nerve of that woman.

Comparing a romance novel to porn makes no sense. The basis of any romance is the growing love between consenting adults. Monogamy and happily ever after. The world could use more of that, in my opinon.

And now someone is anonymously hitting the blogs comments saying we’re all missing the point:

I think everyone is missing the bigger picture, Susan Combs wrote a book with sex and then Susan Combs took a public position during debate on a sex education (ABSENCE ONLY)
bill while she served as a State Representative. The point, Susan Combs is a hypocrite.

Fred Head is clearly stating the facts.

Please debate how you can write a book of this nature and then took a public position of sex education (ABSENCE ONLY) bill. Can’t have it both ways.

Sure you can. You can have it both ways. You know why? Becuase her book was about consenting adults, love, and happily ever after and has absolutely nothing to do with her personal stance on Abstience for children. (I’m assuming he meant abstinence…)Grow up. Get a life. And realize that one has absolutely nothing at all to do with the other.

By the way, Mr. Head…one has to wonder if you realizedthat the headquarters for Romance Writers of America is located in the great state of Texas. Our membership is 9000+ and growing and we’re very proud of what we do. We’re mothers, fathers, spouses, teachers, professionals, and we’re all mad as hell at the thought that you would judge us based on the fact that we write “sex books”.

There is no shame in sex. There is no shame in writing about monogamy, and love, and happily ever after.

But there is great shame in trying to twist the facts to serve your sad little campaign. However, you did manage to eek out some free publicity, so I guess your rhetoric did serve one purpose.

Shame on you.

10 thoughts on “The shame of Fred Head”

  2. Anonymous! of Dallas, Texas certainly got around! He challenged me on my blog (http://annjacobs.blogspot.com) to debate how a person could write pornography and not be a hypocrite to favor sexual abstinence for children.

    First, his opponent never wrote pornography. She wrote a relatively tame romance novel fifteen years ago.

    I’m a Republican, and an author of erotic romance–now and for over ten years now. I’m personally inclined to leave sex education to parents rather than try to legislate abstinence for children. Still, I see nothing hypocritical about someone writing the uplifting fantasy of a couple falling in love (and yes, sex is part of it) and overcoming obstacles to arrive at a happy, committed relationship, while believing schools should encourage children to be sexually abstinent.

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  4. Hey y’all, thanks for dropping by.

    I have to say, it irks me to no end that Mr. Head is getting all this free publicity, but I just couldn’t let this go without adding my .02 worth. We’re probably beating a dead horse now, but at least he changed the awfully misspelled word “extraxts” on his webpage and changed it to “excerpts”. We may not succeed in getting him to realize what a blow hard he’s being, but we did at least get that word off his webpage.

    We can be proud.

    Zinnia–I used to want to be in politics; glad I changed my mind. Heh.

    Ann, just wanted you to know that I’ve been a big fan of yours since the whole Graphical Standards debaucle a couple of years ago. You handled yourself with grace and professionalism and I was truly impressed.

    Thanks again for popping in!

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  6. Okay, there was no way to comment on his website, so I went to Susan Combs website, and sent him an E-Card with my sentiments on it. I also mentioned that he could probably do with a little more physical attention or he wouldn’t be so uptight.

    I feel a little better.
    Signed,
    One Native Texan.

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  8. Great post, Mel!

    Fred Head has obviously never read a book or taken a peek in in a dictionary. If he had he would know that porn is, by definition, obsene, offensive to morality. And no matter what type of romance you write, the genre promotes love and even marriage. How can that be obsence?

    Go away Fred head.

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  9. if you folks would simply say “they lay with each other” like in the bible, none of this finger-pointing would happen.

    you know it’s all your (collective) fault!

    now, would someone please go drop a flaming bag of crap on that dumb-ass’ doorstep? jan, you live in tejas, take care of that for us, why doncha?

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  10. Fishdog, I’d love to…the bag would even have little hearts on it.

    But alas, although I am a Texan born and bred, I have been transplanted to Florida.

    I’ll be driving through God’s Country this November though…maybe I’ll pay Mr. Uptight a visit.

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