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The Fart Letters of James Joyce

Kinky History

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Ulysses by James Joyce

James Joyce's Ulysses was banned for obscenity in the early 1900s. The novel is over 1000 pages long and most of it is written in literal gibberish. In one scene, Leopold Bloom imagines himself as a dominatrix while getting fisted at a brothel. At the end of the book, Mollie screams out "yes" before they have sex.

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