Good question why it went on being produced - but looking at the catalogues of booksellers/mail-order libraries of dodgy literature, a lot of what one would think was well past its sell-by stuff was still circulating. Possibly because readers - on account of censorship - would have little means of judging what would be good uptodate work, unless it had attracted a huge amount of scandal.
Also there was the factor of 'works of which people had heard through word of mouth whispers'. While this might be 'read in the papers about Dr Stopes/Kinsey Report' was just or more likely to have been about 'book I found hidden in older relative's underwear drawer'/'somebody said behind the bike-sheds'.
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Date: 2024-04-08 08:52 am (UTC)Also there was the factor of 'works of which people had heard through word of mouth whispers'. While this might be 'read in the papers about Dr Stopes/Kinsey Report' was just or more likely to have been about 'book I found hidden in older relative's underwear drawer'/'somebody said behind the bike-sheds'.