Thursday, October 4, 2012
Celebrating Banned Book Week: A Look at the Novels That Have Threatened the Moral Fabric of Our Nation. Or, You Know... Not really.
Posted by Zachary Gomes on Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:33 PM
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Lolita
Given our nation’s desperate fear/weird love of teen sexuality, this seems like ripe material for ‘most-banned book in the country.’ There must certainly be more, but the ALA lists only 2 cases of Lolita being challenged, and only one of those occurred in the US! Don’t get us wrong, this book rules; but somehow, the novel where a grown man has sex with an adolescent and admits to having a certain fondness for “nymphets” has not gotten as much hate as Go the Fuck to Sleep? You really dropped the ball on this one, America.
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