D.H. Lawrence and Lady Chatterly's Lover

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This chapter provides a historical overview of the trials surrounding the book Lady Chatterley's Lover. It discusses how the book was banned in the US for obscenity in 1929 and the efforts to lift the obscenity provisions. It also covers the successful court case in 1959 that established the standard of redeeming social or literary value, leading to the publication of the unexpurgated version.

Banned in many countries until the 1960s, David Herbert Lawrence's 1928 novel is both racier and tamer than you might imagine. What more would you expect from a book that uses both "the love experience" and [BLEEP] to describe, well, adult behavior? Caveat lictor: this episode features discussions of Adult Situations.

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