Word: pornographia
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Somewhere between Raymond Chandler's novel and the screen of the neighborhood theatre all mention of pornographia and nymphomania--the specific subjects of the original--has been trapped in the meshes of the Production Code. What is left of the Chandler touch is the dialogue and the general aura of pointless brutality which has distinguished other films of the Cain-Chandler genre...
...organization calling itself The Fal-staff Press has flooded the mails with illustrated advertisements of sex books, clothed in the dignity of the quintosyllabic word Pornographia. This pornographia, it is stated, is intended only for esoteric adults. Despite this no doubt worthy intention there are few undergraduates who have not been offered thousands of dollars worth of the world's rare sex literature for a mere pittance. More recently the Maxwell Droke publishing company has advertised through the channels of Uncle Sam's mails a book of verse designated as "What not to recite at little Eleanor's party." What...
...literary seepage, put his finger in the dike until the police had a chance to follow his suggestion of proscribing the subtly indecent book. The waters of obscenity have roared without, but Mr. Sterling has not been daunted. In Harvard Square, long stigmatized as the capital of Massachusetts pornographia, he found but one objectionable book, which was withdrawn with the bookseller's apology that it was on sale only because the man upstairs wrote it. Thus did purity leap the water...
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