7 Most Controversial Erotic Novels

HuffPost Books

We writers like to moan about how difficult the writing life is: the uncertain and sporadic income, the faltering market, the isolation, the impossible odds. And yet, it's probably safe to say that very few of us - at least here in the Western world -- have faced the kind of adversity that the following writers endured in their day, when their work was banned and burned and confiscated and altered beyond recognition and literally put on trial for its life - and when the writers themselves (and their publishers, and even the shopkeepers who dared to sell their books) faced criminal charges.
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