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Posted on December 31, 2022

S8 E4 Seconal Days: Jacqueline Susann ‘Valley of the Dolls’ (1966)

Hailed as ‘Dirty Book of the Month’ by Time in 1966, this novel was an instant bestseller. But not in Ireland, where it was illegal to sell it between 1967 and 1979. What does this classic of women’s fiction have to say about feminism, sex and medicine? With Dr Cara Rodway.

Posted on May 25, 2021

S5 E2 Phallic: Flynn, ‘My Wicked, Wicked Ways’ (1959)

Errol Flynn was extremely hot in his day but you might not see his beautiful face in the same way after reading his memoir. A scandalous take on Golden Age Hollywood, it was too salacious for the Irish market.

Posted on October 29, 2020January 8, 2021

S3 E7 Queer, with cocktails: Moore, ‘Chocolates for Breakfast’ (1956)

A candid, haunting novel about the coming-of-age of a teenage girl. Full of decadent sexuality that would have given the censors a fit of the vapours.

2013 Harper Perennial Classics Edition
Posted on July 31, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 E7 Bestial Behaviour: Endore, ‘The Werewolf of Paris’ (1933)

Endore combined violence and blasphemy in this classic of the werewolf genre. It’s impossible to know whether the radical politics or freaky sex most offended the censor.

Cover art of 1943 edition
Posted on July 22, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 E6: Love, not Sex: Wallace, ‘The Chapman Report’ (1960)

America was horrified when the Kinsey report showed women were capable of sexual misbehaviour. Wallace’s book trashed Kinsey but it still too sexy for the Irish censor.

Pretty sexy cover….

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