They don't approve of whaling? Or Maoris? or obsessive pursuits -- no, that's the electoral season.
Porn is very much in the eyes of the beholder. With Victorian novels, it's the inference of sex. 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' was banned as porn; when I read it, I skipped right past that bit, which was Tess falling asleep and a man going to his knee and reaching out toward her. Cut to the next chapter, where she has a child. I don't remember Hawthorne that well, but I suspect it's similar.
Stranger in a Strange Land probably got overtly slammed for free love (which is text) but it probably was covertly considered suspect for its literal interpretation of some parts of early Christianity that aren't done in the mainstream any more -- such as living communally, sharing all things in common. And, oh, yeah, the idea that women could actually be able to choose when they wanted to become pregnant. Radical, in the era before the pill. And, considering the conservative Republican assault on women's rights and contraception, it's still a radical notion to some that women are people, and are equals to men.
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Porn is very much in the eyes of the beholder. With Victorian novels, it's the inference of sex. 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' was banned as porn; when I read it, I skipped right past that bit, which was Tess falling asleep and a man going to his knee and reaching out toward her. Cut to the next chapter, where she has a child. I don't remember Hawthorne that well, but I suspect it's similar.
Stranger in a Strange Land probably got overtly slammed for free love (which is text) but it probably was covertly considered suspect for its literal interpretation of some parts of early Christianity that aren't done in the mainstream any more -- such as living communally, sharing all things in common. And, oh, yeah, the idea that women could actually be able to choose when they wanted to become pregnant. Radical, in the era before the pill. And, considering the conservative Republican assault on women's rights and contraception, it's still a radical notion to some that women are people, and are equals to men.