| 1 | * HilariousInHindsight: "Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters — because girls can read as well as boys — reading this book? Is it a book you would have lying around your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" The prosecutor actually said that in Britain in 1960. It caused amusement and derision even at the time (and was part of why the jury found for the defense), but has only gotten worse with age. |
| 2 | * OvershadowedByControversy: The novel is known more for containing explicit sexual language and descriptions, and for being the subject of a famous 1960 obscenity trial against Penguin Books when they began to publish the first uncensored edition, than for anything actually found within its pages. While Penguin Books ultimately won the trial and [[StreisandEffect the attention by the news ensured the then-new edition sold out to curious readers who had wondered what all the hullabaloo was about]], the trial still remains its most discussed topic. |
| 3 | * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Mervyn Griffith-Jones, the counsel for the prosecution in the book's obscenity trial, asked a question in his opening address to the jury which was widely quoted in the media at the time: "Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- reading this book? Is it a book you would have lying around your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" The jury had a bit of a laugh at this remark, and it was regarded by some commentators as emblematic of the hide-bound old upper-class Establishment and the first nail in the coffin of the prosecution, since the type of jury Griffith-Jones was addressing effectively didn't exist anymore. There were women on the jury and most of the jurors wouldn't even have ''had'' servants, let alone presumed to dictate to their wives and/or servants what they should and shouldn't read. The idea that children would read it was also seen as a pure straw man argument, since the issue was the rights of adults to read what they wanted. |
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