This book discusses censorship and sex through the ages. The 15 chapters focus on the following topics: (1) the bases of censorship; (2) the concept of taboo; (3) the role of words in the control of people's thought; (4) Hellenism, stoicism, and censorship; (5) the Judeo-Christian influence; (6) the puritan and the censor; (7) religion and censorship; (8) the motivations of the censor; (9) the censor, the creative artist, and the literary critic; (10) the community as censor; (11) the law and censorship; (12) the new morality and American libraries; (13) the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography's (C.O.P.) report; (14) the censor, the individual, and morality; and (15) the Supreme Court, censorship, and eros. The six appendixes include such information as the recommendations of the C.O.P. and statements for and on the C.O.P. (TS)