"' William Dugdale "'( 29 March 1800 & ndash; 11 November 1868 ) was an English publisher, printer, and bookseller of politically subversive publications and pornographic literature in England during the 19th century.
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There was a clown show during which there was a segment where all the parents had to leave the room and the clown took off his nose, lit a cigarette, poured a drink and started reading pornographic literature aloud ( or what passed for it in those days ).
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In his decision Wednesday, Wolin rebuked state lawmakers for writing legislation so sloppy that in addition to banning pornographic literature, photographs and other material, it could also prohibit inmates " from reading the Bible, fashion magazines, books, legal documents and sections of newspapers ."
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At one rally, members were encouraged to tear apart copies of Vladimir Sorokin's " Blue Salo ", which was deemed pornographic for a passage depicting gay sex between Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev . The group brought formal charges against the author for writing pornographic literature.
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A complaint was posted in the " Chicago Daily Defender ", claiming that the book is pornographic literature, and had 428 incidents of impure words . The book was also banned at a high school in Massachusetts because the headmaster found the language filthy .
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Since the 1950s the publication of pornographic literature in England and Wales has been governed by the Obscene Publications Act 1959 . The act created a new offence for publishing obscene material, but the wording of the act is famously vague, defining obscenity as material likely to " deprave and corrupt ".
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On a deeper level, though, " Cunt " can be seen as an attempt to ridicule both machismo ( with the man always willing, ready and able ) and the whole genre of pornographic literature, the latter by the author's making use of exactly the same devices a flimsy gang bang.
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""'The Sins of the Cities of the Plain; or, The Recollections of a Mary-Ann, with Short Essays on Sodomy and Tribadism " "', by the pseudonymous " Jack Saul ", is one of the first exclusively homosexual works of pornographic literature published in English.
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Of course, " The Sexual Life of Catherine M . " joins a vast French tradition of pornographic literature, to which it has been compared, at times unfavorably, as lacking De Sade's philosophical density, the elegant remove of " Story of O " or the social dimension of Michel Houellebecq's novels . ( Curiously, the model Millet refers to in her preface to the new French edition is the erotic English diary " My Secret Life " by an anonymous Victorian gentleman . ) At the same time, the book taps into a more recent trend.
