Bill Maher Quotes
These people who do not get enough sex are always tring to stop the people who do.
Bill Maher, Political Humorist, HBO, Real Time With Bill Maher, September 20, 2005
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For many years, the English Customs Service would prevent books and other literature from being brought into the country if the authorities thought that they were seditious or unwholesome. The right to publish and the right to read was stronger for locally produced sedition or pornography than for imported where there were severe restrictions until recently. America had similar restrictions at the time.
Hall’s novel was banned in England and America on obscenity grounds for the quoted sentence. The characters were both women and the veiled implication of possible sex between two women was then considered pornography per se. The New York Judge who found the publisher guilty said “the book tends to debauch public morals.” The guilty verdict was overturned on appeal. As a result of the “negative publicity” the book sold over 1 million copies in the author’s lifetime and was translated into 11 languages. Suppression had the effect of giving the book enormous publicity which is often true in censorship cases. If nothing else, people want to see what the society says that they should not read.
William Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host. He is known for the HBO political talk show Real Time with Bill Maher (2003–present) and the similar late-night show called Politically Incorrect (1993–2002), originally on Comedy Central and later on ABC.
