Married Love

Married Love is a non-fiction by Marie Stopes. Banned by the Irish Censorship Board for discussing birth control.

The surviving record is interesting because it shows how even ordinary-looking books can acquire a charged political afterlife. As a non-fiction, 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 Ireland. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: Banned by the Irish Censorship Board for discussing birth control. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

Married Love entered censorship debates as a non-fiction associated with controversy, morality, print scandal, publication history, sexuality, and state scrutiny. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around obscenity, public morality, and political sensitivity.

The earliest event currently captured here is 20th century in New Zealand, where Customs Department classified, prohibited, or restricted. Allowed to be imported "on the understanding that no guarantee is given that action will not be taken by the police if any offence in respect of them is subsequently committed under the Indecent Publications Act 1910". Allowed to be imported "on the understanding that no guarantee is given that action will not be taken by the police if any offence in respect of them is subsequently committed under the Indecent Publications Act 1910".

The record already stretches across New Zealand and Ireland, which is why the page should be read as a cross-border censorship trail rather than a single isolated dispute.

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

• 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.

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

  Useful for comparing older obscenity, heresy, and political bans with modern free-speech disputes.

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

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

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• Wikipedia: List of books banned by governments reference partial
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• 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature book partial
• Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. book partial
• Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds book partial