The Well at 80: Hasn't Run Dry Yet
By Diana Souhami
EIGHTY YEARS AGO, The Well of Loneliness was condemned by the English courts as an obscene libel and "burned in the King's furnace." The book was indicted and censored solely because of its lesbian theme, for its prose has no spice or sleaze at all. Nothing very sexy goes on in it. "She kissed her full on the lips" and "That night they were not divided" are as hot as its descriptions of lesbian lovemaking get. The Well at 80: Hasn't Run Dry Yet
EIGHTY YEARS AGO, The Well of Loneliness was condemned by the English courts as an obscene libel and "burned in the King's furnace." The book was indicted and censored solely because of its lesbian theme, for its prose has no spice or sleaze at all. Nothing very sexy goes on in it. "She kissed her full on the lips" and "That night they were not divided" are as hot as its descriptions of lesbian lovemaking get. The Well at 80: Hasn't Run Dry Yet
posted by Tom Jackson @ Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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