Publications Tribunal
Sir, —I do not think pornography is likely to harm any reader, but standards of "ood taste—not arbitrary, but socially determined—should be maintained. There is a conventional and legal limit to obscenity expressed in public, and four-letter words or
biological details add nothing either to the reality or the literary merit of a book. The tribunal and its supporters confuse the licence of filth with personal liberty; censorship itself has become a dirty word because in other lands it means the black-out of ideas and political witchhunting.—Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. August 31, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31463, 1 September 1967, Page 12
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