Back in the 1950s there were a couple of court cases concerning two books - 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' and 'Fanny Hill' (the latter very explicitly described the life of a courtesan) - to try and get them banned because some considered them both to be obscene. Both were already released, and naturally people were emptying the shops of them, if only to see what all the fuss was about - there's no such thing as bad publicity. Being only 16 at the time, I was naturally curious and bought a copy of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', read it and couldn't see what all the fuss was about. I never managed to get hold of a copy of Fanny Hill as it was considered far more daring and copies sold as soon as they hit the shops. If you weren't in the shop when a consignment arrived, you didn't get to buy one.
Then today, nearly 50 years later, while browsing in one of the remainders shops, there was a paperback copy of 'Fanny Hill'. It's now classed as an 'erotic classic'. So I just had to buy it to find out if the fuss in the 1950s was warranted. Haven't started reading it yet, but I feel that, if I'm going to read it in public, I might just have to put a plain brown wrapper on it.:-) Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
