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Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in Her Smock
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Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in Her Smock

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  • obscenity
    / Obscenity laws in the 18th and 19th centuries

    …of a new edition of Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in Her Smock, a mildly pornographic work that had been written several decades earlier; his sentence, a fine and one hour in the pillory, was delayed because no punishment was then specified in the law. Thereafter obscenity was…

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    …of a new edition of Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in Her Smock, a mildly pornographic work that had been written several decades earlier; his sentence, a fine and one hour in the pillory, was delayed because no punishment was then specified in the law. Thereafter obscenity was…

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