When Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonatawas banned from distribution through the mail (except for first class) in 1890, New York street vendors began selling it from pushcarts carrying
large signs reading "Suppressed!" In 1961, the United States Supreme Court pondered whether D.H. Lawrence'sLady Chatterley's Lover was lewd or literary. In 1969, the novel
was required reading in many college literature courses. Changing sexual mores have moved many formerly forbidden books out of locked cabinets and into libraries and classrooms.
Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds, Third Editionexamines the issues underlying the suppression of more than 120 works deemed sexually obscene.
New and revised entries include:
