This discussion reminded me that, a short while back, I ran into a new edition of a Booth Tarkington book. The publisher was very proud that they had removed questionable language and situations from it. Sadly the book was almost unreadable since Tarkington wrote about his ~1900 environment and most of it was unacceptable to these more "enlightened" times. Thomas Bowdler would have been very proud of them.
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I absolutely detest trigger warnings all romance novels seem to have these days, and always delete them without reading. They spoil the plot. Fortunately those abominations haven't yet reached other genres, not for most books at least.
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My spouse seems to feel that many of those trigger warnings are more advertising than warning. One book she read had 2.5 pages of warnings. After that book, I was told to remove that content. SWMBO has spoken.