{"id":66959,"date":"2014-02-19T18:08:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T23:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=66959"},"modified":"2014-02-19T18:44:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T23:44:43","slug":"its-all-lustful-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/19\/its-all-lustful-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s All Lustful to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Georgia\u2019s obscene novels.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66968\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/censorship-header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66968\" class=\" wp-image-66968\" alt=\"censorship header\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/censorship-header.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/censorship-header.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/censorship-header-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-66968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a foreign edition of Erskine Caldwell\u2019s <i>God\u2019s Little Acre<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sixty-one years ago today, on February 19, 1953, the State of Georgia approved the formation of the first-ever literature censorship board in the United States. It went by the misleading name of the Georgia Literature Commission, and its humble charge was to stamp out obscenity in all of the myriad and insidious forms it took in our nation\u2019s periodicals and publications. <em>The Washington Post has<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/govbeat\/wp\/2014\/02\/19\/georgia-created-the-nations-first-censorship-board-61-years-ago-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">an excellent gloss<\/a> on the commission, which persevered for some twenty years, despite having been mired in controversy from its inception. James P. Wesberry, the committee\u2019s chairman\u2014and not coincidentally a Baptist preacher\u2014found himself ridiculed by the national press when, soon after the committee\u2019s formation, he said, \u201cI don\u2019t discriminate between nude women, whether they are art or not. It\u2019s all lustful to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus, with God and a pure, unyielding ignorance on his side, Wesberry developed an eight-question checklist with which to gauge literature for obscenity:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1. What is the general and dominant theme?<br \/>2. What degree of sincerity of purpose is evident?<br \/>3. What is the literary or scientific worth?<br \/>4. What channels of distribution are employed?<br \/>5. What are contemporary attitudes of reasonable men toward such matters?<br \/>6. What types of readers may reasonably be expected to peruse the publication?<br \/>7. Is there evidence of pornographic intent?<br \/>8. What impression will be created in the mind of the reader, upon reading the work as a whole?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(One imagines that question seven did most of the heavy lifting\u2014the committee probably skipped ahead to that one, much as a wayward youth would skip ahead to the prurient bits in a girlie mag.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/3098\/the-art-of-fiction-no-62-erskine-caldwell\">Erskine Caldwell<\/a>\u2019s <em>God\u2019s Little Acre <\/em>was the first book to be suggested for censorship, in 1957; <em>The Catcher in the Rye <\/em>and <em>The Naked and the Dead<\/em> were also deemed obscene. For the most part, though, the commission went after dime-store sleaze like Alan Marshall\u2019s <em>Sin Whisper<\/em>\u2014when they banned that title, the battle went all the way to the Supreme Court, which overturned the decision. By 1971, the whole commission seemed kind of silly. When Jimmy Carter, he who had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.u-s-history.com\/pages\/h1967.html\" target=\"_blank\">lusted after women in his heart<\/a>, was governor, he slashed the commission\u2019s funding, and by 1973 it was no more. Still, when you see the lurid covers of these novels, you\u2019ll understand why they were believed to corrupt and deprave. Here are some of the books the committee found too debauched for the public consumption: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/turbulent-daughters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-66967\" alt=\"turbulent daughters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/turbulent-daughters.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/turbulent-daughters.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/turbulent-daughters-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/center><center>Reese Hayes, <em>Turbulent Daughters<\/em><\/center><center><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/campus-lust.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-66974\" alt=\"campus lust\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/campus-lust.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/campus-lust.jpg 374w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/campus-lust-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/center><center>Peggy Swan,\u00a0<em>Campus Lust<\/em><\/center><center><\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000INYDKM\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000INYDKM&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-66973\" alt=\"george h smith strip cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/george-h-smith-strip-cover.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/george-h-smith-strip-cover.png 525w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/george-h-smith-strip-cover-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/center><center>George H. Smith, <em>Strip Artist<\/em><\/center><center><\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000NQFMBI\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000NQFMBI&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-66971\" alt=\"alan marshall sin whisper 1965\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/alan-marshall-sin-whisper-1965.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/alan-marshall-sin-whisper-1965.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/alan-marshall-sin-whisper-1965-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/center><center>Alan Marshall, <em>Sin Whisper<\/em><\/center><center><\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00GELS0JC\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00GELS0JC&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-66970\" alt=\"rambling maids\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rambling-maids.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rambling-maids.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rambling-maids-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/center><center>Betty Short, <em>The Rambling Maids<\/em><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lust-avenger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-66985\" alt=\"lust avenger\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lust-avenger.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lust-avenger.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lust-avenger-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/center><center>John Dexter, <em>Lust Avenger<\/em><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0820316636\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0820316636&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-66972\" alt=\"Caldwell172-GodsLittleAcre-frontCover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Caldwell172-GodsLittleAcre-frontCover-654x1024.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Caldwell172-GodsLittleAcre-frontCover-654x1024.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Caldwell172-GodsLittleAcre-frontCover-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Caldwell172-GodsLittleAcre-frontCover.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/center><center>Erskine Caldwell, <em>God\u2019s Little Acre<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia\u2019s obscene novels. 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