Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaching decision was a French version of D. H. Lawrence's notorious novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover. According to the New York State Board of Regents, the film was "immoral within the intent of our law," which prohibits exhibition of shows that portray "acts of sexual immorality, perversion or lewdness ... as desirable, acceptable or proper patterns of behavior." So the judges watched Lady Chatterley (played by Danielle Darrieux) make a cuckold of Sir Clifford Chatterley (Leo Genn) with Sir Clifford's gamekeeper (Erno Crisa). According to a dozen or so U.S. movie reviewers, they saw a tasteful...
...burden of the defense-beyond pleading that the rapists were not responsible for their crime by reason of youth or mental deficiency-was that the girl had willingly joined in sexual intercourse. That line was devastatingly rebutted by Deputy Sheriff W. W. Slappey, the first cop to talk to the victim after the crime. Asked to describe her condition, Slappey said that she was trembling, crying, "jerking all over and hysterical...
...answer to the question, "Of which of the following sexual practices do you disapprove because of your religious beliefs?", 38% disapproved of extramarital intercourse, 21% premarital intercourse, 21% homosexuality, 18% legalized abortion, 14% divorce, 7% birth control...
...language on sex (mild by the standards of many a modern bestseller), but professed to see not even a quiver of prurience in the book. As for the Postmaster General, he sat down to read the novel himself, concluded: "The book is replete with descriptions in minute detail of sexual acts, utilizing filthy, offensive and degrading words and terms. Any literary merit the book may have is far outweighed by the pornographic and smutty passages and words." Summerfield leaned heavily on a 1953 decision (concerning Henry Miller's notorious Tropics) by Judge Albert L. Stephens of the U.S. Court...
...social feudal order than to kill or maim a man. The maximum penalty for blaspheming, destroying hops, burning a haystack, or "maliciously damaging a river bank" is still life imprisonment. But the maximum penalty for forcing a child to live in a brothel is six months, and having sexual intercourse with a child or maiming a person by reckless driving can bring only two years. In spite of gradual reforms, it is still worse to steal a dog (18 months) than to attack a neighbor (one year...