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Forbidden Books
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
The Marquis Desat Index of Prohibited Books
In some context, sex is mandatory. And so allegedly pornographic images and pornographic stories do start to get on to the index. It's a gradual thing because again, there's pushback. Some people say, no, that's just a beautiful nude. We want that. You can't ban that. So it's not just suddenly they, or always, they say that all sex is bad and all nudity is bad. In fact, it goes back and forth for centuries. But then what about all the people who were Marquis Desat adjacent who didn't get on the list? They were quite selective in what they put on.
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