My Secret Garden

My Secret Garden is a non-fiction by Nancy Friday. Banned in Ireland for its sexual content.

Its interest lies partly in the way literary or informational writing gets collapsed into a public-morality problem. 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 in Ireland for its sexual content. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

My Secret Garden entered censorship debates as a non-fiction associated with circulation politics, institutional control, morality, print scandal, risk knowledge, and sexuality. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around instructional harm, public order, obscenity, and public morality.

The earliest event currently captured here is 2019-04-17 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: PAGES 176 & 177. 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: PAGES 176 & 177 CONTAIN GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF SEX WITH A.

The record already stretches across Texas 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.

• The Marshall Project: Banned book lists from 18 states database partial
• Wikipedia: List of books banned by governments reference partial
• Wikipedia REST summary API database partial
• 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