Well, come on the, give us the line
@In one case – that of Kate O’Brien’s Land of Spices (1941) – a single line of text appears to have sufficed for the work to receive a ban.
it is ....
It’s the end of the world as we know it! Or at least, the end of book-banning craic in Ireland, which for some of the god-fearing citizens of that country possibly amounts to much the same thing. Our story, reported in full in the Saturday’s Irish Times, begins back in 1930 when the newly-formed Irish State, reeling in shock …
I've never seen the point of banning anything.
Making age limits!? okay fair enough! but banning!
If your going to Ban the free expressions and ideas of our species then you may of well ban evolution (yes! yes! certain areas of the world)
Anything you ban goes underground! then you really do get the sickos!
IMO Really is better that everything be on the table, That way at least you cant say you didnt know what you were getting into!
"The decline of the church’s influence over the last 20 years has had a major impact."
I think that you could reduce the entire article to that one sentence and you would pretty much sum up the gist of the thing.
Really, I cannot for the life of me fathom why it is ever a good thing to bad any idea or any literature. If you don't want to read something, don't read it.
In their opinion, they are of a superior intellect and high moral fibre, and can read this sort of thing with a detached air of bemusement. You* on the other hand, are weak willed, and low moralled, and thus must be saved from yourself by hiding this filth from you.
*No, not You, per se, just anyone that's not Them.
In 1953 or perhaps '54 I live in a Devonshire village called Uffculme. On Tuesday nights my dad went to the pub next door to watch a film, and then on the next evening I would go down to the village hall, pay my 4d - ( just over 2p in modern currency) to watch the film.
Except one Wednesday my father told me that the village watch committee (O.K. all the men in the pub) has decided that the film was unsuitable. - Then he went to the pub to watch it again.
It's the old joke isn't it.
Chairman of the watch committee (local censorship committee), "Well gentlemen, shall we watch it one more time before we ban it?"
Any suggestions as the the banned film? ;-)
"...such as Startling Detective or True Detective Mysteries."
Err, aren't those the ones whose covers would feature full colour drawings of busty young ladies with loose blouses or ripped skirts being bound up or attacked or fleeing from assailants along with lurid stories of vice and drugs and general depravity?
Nope, nothing for the prudes to get upset about there...!