Of Prurient Interest

Episode 2: Obscenity & Literature in the United States, Part 2


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Books mentioned: 

The Period Book by Karen Gravelle and Jennifer Gravelle

Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce

Princess Nevermore by Dian Curtis Regan

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Uncle Wiggily by Howard R. Garis

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Conan series by R. H. Howard

Gor series by John Norman

Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Little Birds and Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin

The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A. N. Roquelaure (aka Anne Rice!)

Crimes of Love and Philosophies in the Boudoir by the Marquis de Sade

The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter


Essays Mentioned:

"The Best Sex I Ever Read Was By the Famously 'Dick-Centric' Henry Miller" by Mary Gaitskill, as told to Lila Shapiro

"Porn: An Effective Vehicle for Sexual Role Modeling and Education" by Nina Hartley

"Exclusive: An Investigation into Algorithmic Bias in Content Policing on Instagram"


Podcasts Mentioned: 

American Sex Podcast, Ep. 151 

Fangasm/Potterotica


Legal Cases, Etc. Mentioned:

Attorney General v. The Book Called Tropic of Cancer (1962)

Jacoblellis v. Ohio (1964)

A Book Named John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure v. Attorney General of Massachusetts (1966)

Ginzburg v. United States (1965)

Attorney General v. A Book Called Naked Lunch (1966)

Stanley v. Georgia (1969)

Miller v. California (1973)

The case against Tom Arthur and the Mr. Double website

The Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography (1976)

The Meese Commission on Obscenity (1985)

Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997)

SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act)/FOSTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) (2018)

EARN IT (Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies) Act (2020)

Instagram Community Guidelines


J. Davis:

The Whole Book Experience 

Leaves of Cha 

Donation-based Meditation

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