@frank ly - Re: @Pete 3 Excellent re. Titus Andronicus
"I believe that sort of fiction is now illegal in the UK, or is it just pictorial representation (for the moment)?"
It was the Tory Baroness O'Cathain who actually *did* propose a "Dangerous Writings Act" to go along with the "Dangerous Pictures Act" which would have criminalised anything written that would have been classed as "Extreme Pornography"!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/06/dangerous_writings_endangered/