Word: erotica
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Until recently Boston's shock troops were under two commands: the potent Watch & Ward Society, and the Licensing Division of the City of Boston. The Watch & Ward Society was originally an . . organization headed by clergymen who had the co-operation of booksellers in the suppression of erotica. It reached its greatest effectiveness under the leadership of indomitable Rev. Jason Franklin Chase. Reformer Chase died in 1926. The W. & W. received a serious blow when Bishop William Lawrence and several of its directors resigned as a result of the public exposure of the way the society's agents provocateurs...
...debacle is outlined with unflagging vigor and a wild flow of words. Finally Phaeton Andrews, last man to survive, after a voyage from rotting New York to savage England, ages slowly to his death in 2027, his mind a strange confusion of scraps of philosophy, politics, sociology, psychology, erotica, all the arts and sciences, in consonance with the 34 chapters which precede...
Author David Herbert Lawrence's latest novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, had to be printed privately in Paris, pirated editions in the U. S. and England were book-legged to collectors of erotica. Authorities almost unanimously adjudged it obscene, pornographic. It was the story of an illicit love affair between an English lady and the gamekeeper on her husband's estate: all details were given, all Anglo-Saxon unprintable words were printed. Author Lawrence defended his book, attacked the literary pirates who had stolen it, in a preface (published separately last year...