![]() ![]() ![]() The women who posed for Titian with armfuls of flowers and a nipple exposed were courtesans. ![]() Prostitution and art have always lived together. Pornography is the literature of prostitution. Poor old Rochester! Poor old Swift! To think that literary merit had rendered their works innocuous. According to the wording of the act, the brainchild of Roy Jenkins, literary merit neutralises any tendency to deprave, corrupt, shock or disgust. The jury found the publisher not guilty because the book in question, Lady Chatterley's Lover, had literary merit. A ll those people who have their hearts in the right place have been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the not guilty verdict in the trial of Penguin Books under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959. ![]()
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