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Originally Posted by crich70
Actually I was just trying to point out that what we consider a crime now wasn't necessarily considered a crime in the past.
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Indeed. It's funny we look at Victorian times as being prudish. But drugs were legal. Prostitution was legal. I don't think there were any gun laws at all.
And some of the books written then, when reprinted in modern times, were considered obscene (since most the erotica from then pretty much fails every line of that list that Australia bans) and the publishing house prosecuted.