Name: The Sex Side of Life

Date: 1926 - 1950

Location: North America

SubjectExplicit Sexuality

MediumLiterature


Artist: Mary Ware Dennett

Confronting Bodies

Date of Action: 1930

Specific Location: USA

Description of Artwork: "'The Sex Side of Life'... This was a tame, moralistic manual of elementary anatomy and marital love... "

Description of Incident: "... Sex educator Mary Ware Dennet was also prosecuted and convicted... for her book, 'The Sex Side of Life.'"

Results of Incident: Unknown.

Source: Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy, Marjorie Heins, New Press,'93, NYC

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