December 15th, 2013, 11:15 AM | #1 |
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I vaguely recall the story of an English court case about pornography in the 1970s where one lawyer said something along the lines of that it would be fine for the likes of him to access all that naughty material, but "you would not want your maid or chauffeur" doing that.
...at which point Marie-Antoinette's severed head was doing a full rotation in her grave... (Let them eat cake!) Does someone remember this better than me? Who said that, when, and do we have the exact quote? |
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December 15th, 2013, 11:18 AM | #2 |
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Yup, cited (as "... wife or servants...") from the judge who presided over the obscenity case against Penguin books for their publication of DH Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', first published in 1928, and thus related to the Philip Larkin poem Annus Mirabilis which begins:
"Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban And the Beatles' first LP."
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