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Censored is a podcast for the filthy minded. Explore banned films, books, magazines, newspapers and cinema like a smut-obsessed censor.

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Torrid trash: Wheatley 'To the Devil a Daughter' (1953) Jan 28, 2021

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Wheatley was a successful popular-fiction writer who was censored five times in Ireland. This spy thriller with a dash of Satanism is stuffed with reactionary xenophobic nonsense.

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Hex & Sex: Smith 'Passionate Witch' (1942) Jan 21, 2021

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Only a truly paranoid censor would ban book this innocuous. But even barely there smut can give readers ideas...

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Ravishing: Anon 'The Lustful Turk' (1828) Jan 14, 2021

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Why on earth was antique erotica, with its hilarious genital metaphors, censored in Ireland? This titillating text was officially 'obscene' for more than one hundred years.

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The worst girl: Madonna 'Sex' (1992) Jan 07, 2021

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With nudity, leather and simulated sex of all varieties, Madonna tried to 'de-sin' sexual expression. This photographic book provoked over-reactions in Ireland, Britain, France and America.

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Republican Love Triangle: Broderick 'The Fugitives' (1962) Dec 03, 2020

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An uncensored book that was full of sex, violence and subterfuge. How did Broderick get away with writing about gay, republican freedom-fighters? I don't know for sure, but I'm going to speculate.

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Thick Thighs: O'Brien, 'At Swim Two Birds' (1939) Nov 26, 2020

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O'Brien was that rare thing: an Irish writer who was never banned in Ireland. A book that was less a plot and more a conspiracy distracted the filthy-minded censors.

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Mass Perversion: Comfort, 'The Joy of Sex' (1972) Nov 19, 2020

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JoS was a bestselling sex guide that captured the spirit of the 70s sexual revolution. Although banned in Ireland, it was openly on sale. This is a complicated story of prohibited publications and outraged readers.

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Compulsive wanking: Roth 'Portnoy's Complaint' (1969) Nov 12, 2020

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Why did the Irish censors ignore this spectacularly rude book? And why is this story of a sex-obsessed Jewish man so important in the history of censorship in Australia?

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Satanic Love Triangle: Mannin, 'Lucifer and the Child' (1946) Nov 05, 2020

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What happens when a child meets a horned man in a dark forest? A book that explores the nature of evil and decides that sex isn’t the problem.

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Queer, with cocktails: Moore, 'Chocolates for Breakfast' (1956) Oct 29, 2020

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A candid, haunting novel about the coming-of-age of a teenage girl. Full of decadent sexuality that would have given the censors a fit of the vapours.

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