This Week in Literary History: Mae West is Sentenced to Ten Days in Jail for Obscenity
“She seemed to go to extremes in order to make the play as obscene and immoral as possible.”
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This Week in Literary History: Mae West is Sentenced to Ten Days in Jail for Obscenity
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On February 9, 1927, Mae West was arrested after a performance of her play Sex, which she had written and in which she sta…
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@gutenberg_org
"The biggest sensation since the Armistice" is an amazing tag line
@simon_brooke
I found a copy of it here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/991267756/Sex-2C-Mae-West
It appears that you can read online, but if you want to download it, you have to get a trial subscription.
Wikipedia also has a summary of the Acts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_(play)