I support freedom of expression, but I could never support a rally of this kind organised on the back of such controversy over the abuse of this freedom.
As discussed at a recent Index on Censorship event, fear of such controversy, and the possible impact on sponsors, has already led to artistic self-censorship – as well as private performances of offending work, as in the days of Wilde's Salome.
The evidence of such controversy is seen along the interviews.
He is no stranger to such controversy.
With such controversy, many questions remain to be answered.
Lesbian kiss: In 1994, the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss between Beth and Margaret on Brookside caused such controversy that it was removed from the weekend omnibus.
The hero is fifteen-year-old Laurent (Benoît Ferreux), schooled in adult pleasures by his older brothers, who take him to a brothel, and devoted to his luscious Italian mother (Leá Massari); it is the outcome of that devotion which stirred such controversy on the film's release, in 1971.
Here we briefly focus on two such controversies whose implications appear particularly far-reaching for the strands of sociological inquiry that we pursue in this work.
One such controversy centers on the question of whether Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics are primarily descriptive or prescriptive works.[25] To the degree that they are indeed prescriptive, one may wonder whether Aristotle has presumed in these treatises to dictate to figures of the stature of Sophocles and Euripides how best to pursue their crafts.
As documented on a Wikipedia page about such controversies: "Jimbo once removed a photograph of autofellatio from its relevant article, with the comment: 'This image is completely unacceptable for Wikipedia - I don't even consider this borderline.'..
This fact is hard for the American public to grasp, given the harsh public rhetoric and posturing by both parties and a 24/7/365 cable news environment that feeds on such rhetorical controversy.
