Note on Pornography

THE YEAR THAT THE ENGLISH POLICE NOISILY CLOSED AN EXHIBITION IN London, confiscating its paintings, D. H. Lawrence wrote a pamphlet that was edited in England and was entitled "Pornography and Obscenity." Shortly before his death, Lawrence continued his twenty-year struggle against the "grays," those responsible for the seizure of complete editions of some of his works, and those who had been attacked by the "gray disease" which, according to him, takes the form of hatred of anything sexual. He also struggled against the stragglers from Victorian Puritanism of the nineteenth century, which he called the prudish and eunuch century, accusing it of having wanted to destroy humanity

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