An entertaining and elegant look at singledom in London that challenged censor’s ideas on sex and conception.
S4 E5 Original Sin: Spark ‘The Bachelors’ (1960)
S2 E4 Evil Contraception: Marie Stopes, ‘Married Love’ (1918)
Marie Stopes’ advocacy of contraception was radial in 1918 but it was 1980 before the Irish public could read her sex manual.
S1 E9 Huxley, ‘Point Counter Point’ (1928): amoral sex
One of the first books banned by the censor, this modernist classic is full of indecent and obscene ideas about sex.
S1 E6 Sex in Suburbia: Richard Yates, ‘Revolutionary Road’ (1961)
This classic American novel critiques marriage, gender roles and masculinity. So was it the sex or the reproductive choices that attracted the ire of the censor?
