Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos' publisher has cancelled his planned book after a video emerged of him defending sex with children.
Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint announced on Monday that "after careful consideration" it had pulled the book, Dangerous, which had been high on Amazon.com's best-seller lists and was the subject of intense controversy.
The move comes after Simon & Schuster's Australian division last week announced they would not publish the book here.
The book deal was for a reported $US250,000 ($A325,000) and prompted outrage from the outset, including calls to boycott Simon & Schuster publications and threats from authors to take their work elsewhere.
"They cancelled my book," Yiannopoulos confirmed on his Facebook page. "I've gone through worse. This will not defeat me."
The cancellation came just hours after the American Conservative Union (ACU) withdrew its invitation for the Breitbart News blogger to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference, which begins on Wednesday.
In the video, Yiannopolous says the idea of consent is "arbitrary and oppressive", and goes on to compare sexual relationships between older men and children as young as 13 to gay relationships between older and younger men.
He also speaks approvingly of his own sexual relationship with a 29-year-old priest when he was 17.
In response to being uninvited from the conference, Yiannopolous wrote on Facebook he was "horrified by pedophilia", but his "usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humour might have come across as flippancy, a lack of care for other victims or, worse, 'advocacy'."
AP