Why Exactly is This Book Obscene? (Skip to the Dirty Bits)

Plenty of books have been banned or censored over the years—and even more attempts have been made to ban and censor them. But I’ve always wondered exactly what these books were brought to trial for. “Obscenity,” after all, is a pretty wide field. It’s obscene, the number of things I’ve called obscene. So what was it? A certain number of bad words? General sexiness? A queasy feeling in the gut by a well-connected reader? I tracked down a few answers for famous books deemed (by some) obscene. Mostly, it’s about bad words—but sometimes it’s also communism! ... [mehr] http://lithub.com/why-exactly-is-this-book-obscene-skip-to-the-dirty-bits/ - D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover;
William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch; James Joyce, Ulysses; Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber; J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye