ADNinety years ago, “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” was banned in the United States. Today, a popular literary novel can contain so many oral sex acts that readers yawn. It’s hard to imagine what a stir “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” caused in the late 1920s when Lawrence had it privately published and began mailing copies abroad. ADADOf course, high-profile denunciations only increased interest in “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” — censorship always does that. “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” depended on that prohibition to create the titillating sense of something rare and intimate, even forbidden.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2019 12:56 UTC