Lady Chatterly is one of my prized hardback novels…
The Day Obscenity Became Art by Fred Kaplan for The New York Times
“With the assistance of several literary critics’ testimony, he presented “Lady Chatterley” as a novel of ideas that inveighed against sex without love, the mechanization of industrial life and morbid hypocrisy.”
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This is a totally misleading bit of nostalgia. The obscenity laws hardly ended, and the decision discussed here was bitterly contested, so much so that only a few years later the Court reversed itself. In 1973 it settled the question in an unhappy compromise announced in Miller v. California.
There has been ample prosecution of obscenity since then. The written word is not sacrosanct. In the past 4 years there have been three prosecutions of text-only materials. Two defendants have been convicted thus far: Karen Fletcher, a/k/a Red Rose, who pleaded guilty, and Dwayne Whorley, who was also convicted for downloading obscene cartoons and nude images of minors. One defendant is awaiting trial in October in the Middle (federal) District of Georgia.