Public Punishment Quotes
Sapho, a play, opened in New York taking sexual explicitness to a new level. The hero, leaves the stage carrying the famous actress, Olga Nethersole, upstairs to an unseen bedroom presumably for sex. There was no explicit sex but the “immorality” lay in the fact that a woman was portrayed as a sexual being at a time when most “expert thinking” held that women were devoid of sexual pleasure. The New York City vice squad, responding to the many complaints, closed the show, causing national controversy which exploded further when the courts ruled that sexual innuendo was insufficient to censor the show and it re-opened.
