Not just saucy stories: Indian erotic literature and its significance (IANS Column: Bookends)
By IANS | Updated: January 22, 2022 18:50 IST2022-01-22T18:36:06+5:302022-01-22T18:50:15+5:30
"Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is," American cultural critic ...

Not just saucy stories: Indian erotic literature and its significance (IANS Column: Bookends)
"Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is," American cultural critic Gershon Legman said in 1949, decrying the official attitude that allowed cultural depictions of graphic violence but not sex.
As the 1960s began, however, two high-profile trials in the UK
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