“I am a professor of comparative literature, not of comparative lust.”
— Harry T. Levin, testifying in the 1961 Boston censorship trial, responding to the prosecutor’s question: “Professor Levin, which do you think would more excite lewd and libidinous desires in the mind of a young girl—Shakespeare’s ‘Rape of Lucrece’ or Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer?’”
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