Pure filth: Donleavy, ‘The Ginger Man’ (1955)
Was it literature or porn? With sex on nearly every page, it wasn’t surprising this Irish novel was banned for decades. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2 Juli 202037min
Thrusting ecstasy: Nin, 'A spy in the house of love' (1954)
A novel that explores gendered notions of sex and love with some dodgy sex metaphors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
25 Juni 202027min
A lot of ridin': Keane, 'Two Days in Aragon' (1942)
A Big House novel where ordered tennis parties are subverted by fucking in the fields and bondage in the basement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
18 Juni 202031min
Welcome to Season Two
From great Irish writers to sex manuals, Aoife Bhreatnach will search for smut in ten more banned books. Season two will include dodgy sex metaphors and werewolves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...
11 Juni 20202min
Freaky Foreigners: Murdoch, 'The Flight from the Enchanter' (1956)
Why is so hard to find sex in a book saturated with sexual tension? Trigger-happy censors overestimated the filth in this rich and inventive novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...
4 Juni 202030min
Amoral sex: Huxley, 'Point Counter Point' (1928)
One of the first books banned by the censor, this modernist classic is full of indecent and obscene ideas about sex. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
28 Maj 202028min
Babes and Boobs: 'Pleasure Ground' (1961)
With a saucy cover showing lots of flesh, Hitt’s book was never going to be sold in Ireland. But did the text deliver on the smutty promise of the cover art? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
21 Maj 202025min
Convent Sex Crimes: 'The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk' (186)
Why would a censor in 1964 worry about a book published more than a century earlier? Perhaps a Gothic horror story featuring fornicating nuns and priests was just too much. Hosted on Acast. See acast....
14 Maj 202027min
