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**beutelwolf** · December 15th, 2013, 11:15 AM

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?

**rotobott** · December 15th, 2013, 11:18 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Griffith-Jones

**CalumH** · December 16th, 2013, 06:50 PM

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."

December 15th, 2013, 11:15 AM	#1
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December 16th, 2013, 06:50 PM	#3
CalumH Vintage Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 890 Thanks: 3,766 Thanked 16,525 Times in 894 Posts	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." __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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December 15th, 2013, 11:18 AM	#2
rotobott Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 32,103 Thanks: 174,766 Thanked 634,544 Times in 31,424 Posts	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Griffith-Jones