Safe Marriage

Safe Marriage is a non-fiction by Ettie Rout. The book advocated the use of contraception in marriage.

Its significance comes from how questions of race, empire, or hierarchy remain live enough to provoke official suppression. 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 New Zealand. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: The book advocated the use of contraception in marriage. It was banned in 1923 to public outcry ultimately leading to the creation of a committee to advise Customs on book censorship. By 1930, the ban had been reversed. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

Safe Marriage entered censorship debates as a non-fiction associated with history, political memory, and race. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around political sensitivity and racial politics.

The earliest event currently captured here is 1923 in New Zealand, where Customs Department classified, prohibited, or restricted. The book advocated the use of contraception in marriage. It was banned in 1923 to public outcry ultimately leading to the creation of a committee to advise Customs on book censorship. By 1930, the ban had been reversed. The book advocated the use of contraception in marriage. It was banned in 1923 to public outcry ultimately leading to the creation of a committee to advise Customs on book censorship. By 1930, the ban had been reversed.

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.

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