MARILYN

MARILYN is a book by ANDRE DE DIENES. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime.

Its interest lies partly in the way literary or informational writing gets collapsed into a public-morality problem. As a book, it can be read not only for subject matter but for the way form, tone, and circulation make a text feel dangerous, intimate, or politically usable to anxious officials.

It also matters as part of a wider censorship history in Texas. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PG 15 SEXUALLY. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

MARILYN entered censorship debates as a book associated with morality, print scandal, and sexuality. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around obscenity and public morality.

The earliest event currently captured here is 2008-07-28 in Texas, where Texas corrections agencies and prison mailrooms excluded from prison circulation. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PG 15 SEXUALLY. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PG 15 SEXUALLY EXPLICIT IMAGES

This entry is still incomplete: more jurisdictions, court orders, and translated justifications should be added over time.

This page is intentionally incomplete. The ban history is a starter dataset, not a final census of every jurisdiction or decree.

• Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds Dawn B. Sova

  Surveys the legal and moral language used to suppress books as obscene.

• Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. Anne Lyon Haight

  Useful for seeing how obscenity law and censorship habits changed over time.

• 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova

  A compact reference on how censorship systems moved across states, churches, and courts.

• The Marshall Project: Banned book lists from 18 states database partial
• Wikipedia REST summary API database partial
• Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds book partial
• Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. book partial
• 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature book partial