The Sex Side of Life

From Censorpedia

Date: 1930

Region: North America

Subject: Explicit Sexuality

Medium: Literature


Artist: Mary Ware Dennett

Confronting Bodies:

Dates of Action: 1930

Location: USA

Description of Artwork: "'The Sex Side of Life'... This was a tame, moralistic manual of elementary anatomy and marital love... "

The Incident: "... Sex educator Mary Ware Dennet was also prosecuted and convicted... for her book, 'The Sex Side of Life.'"

Results of Incident: Unknown.

Source: Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy, Marjorie Heins, New Press,'93, NYC