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Oddly enough, out of all the books I have ever read, the only one I ever flung across the room and tried not to barf from was Piers Anthony's "The Caterpillars Question". That book, which has gone to print at least twice that I know of, has a underage, handicapped character that the main character has sex with. I may have been mistaken - after all, I never opened the book again, and come very close to destroying it instead of returning it to the library - but I found it deeply offensive.
I do not, however, deny the author's right to have written it and his right to publish it.
For that matter, I remember another book that had male nurses renting out the unresponsive body of a female coma patient. She comes out of her years long coma to the actions of the current renter. I find this also to be deeply offensive, but I don't advocate banning the book.
Banning a book just makes it more enticing for people who enjoy "forbidden" things.
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