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deiki · 4500 days ago · link · · parent · post: In 1963, according to a report in the Harvard Crimson at the time, a teenage Massachusetts boy spent 95 cents to buy a novel written in the 18th century.
Interesting that the opinion is that books require less censoring than television. Ending on that note left an ominous aftertaste.“It all seems very odd now, 50 years later, when you can turn on a cable station in your own home and see stuff that’s incredibly explicit,” (Cowin) said. “The opinion is the government’s got better things to do than telling us what we ought to be reading.”
user-inactivated · 4500 days ago · link ·
There was a post on /r/askhistorians on the history of porn. One of the things he emphasized was that the drive to censor porn started when the masses starting consuming it.