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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:08 PM
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Why was James Joyce's 'Ulysses' banned?
I remember it was the focus of a landmark free speech case, United States v. One Book Called Ulysses

But having read it, I can't see what the bigots of yore found so offensive about it....
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tishaLA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:09 PM
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1. Too much sex
Read Molly Bloom's soliloquy
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:09 PM
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2. OK - I'll go reread that part
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:10 PM
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3. Because she said, "Yes!"
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:17 PM
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10. Molly Bloom didn't just say "Yes" to Blazes Boylan
She also said, "Let him (her husband, Leo Bloom) know I've been fucked and damn well fucked."

With that, James Joyce broke the taboo against the use of the word fuck in literature.
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ceile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:10 PM
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4. Sex if I remember correctly.
I heard a "Writer's Almanac" on Blooms Day and I think that was the gist of the banning...I haven't read it though.
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:12 PM
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5. Some Fairly Explicit 'Birching' Material Tucked Away In It, Sir
Mr.Bloom has some fantasies....
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PufPuf23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:13 PM
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6. Obsenity, specifically.
The Protagonist masturbated every Bloomsday.
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:14 PM
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7. Dominatrix fantasy involving urine drinking
Not to mention that the last 30 pages involve a woman masturbating and having an orgasm:

Yes, yes, I said yes!
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:14 PM
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8. Sexy sex sex
the brothel scene and the 'cuckolding' scene particularly.
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RevStPatrick Donating Member (564 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:15 PM
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9. Because Leopold Bloom...
...has a sex fantasy about Gerty, and jerks off during the fireworks?

Because Molly has a sex fantasy about Stephen?

Among other things...
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Drew Richards Donating Member (507 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 05:46 PM
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11. It is really a very simple answer I am surprised you didn't know...

The fundy's thought Ulysses was a brand of condom and therefore the book must be promoting safe sex.
So of course even though unread by them all...it must be banned.

There answer found. :)
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 06:04 PM
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12. SEX! Which has been SCIENTIFICACALLY PROVENATED to objectify degrade and harm women & children
not to mention, peel paint, wilt plants, bend spoons and drain car batteries.
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LuvNewcastle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 06:10 PM
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13. That's a good question.
How can someone be offended by something that's damn near incomprehensible?
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 09:52 PM
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16. If Viewed As A Screen-Play, Sir, It falls Into Place Somehow....
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PETRUS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 07:00 PM
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14. Sanitation & public safety.
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