Talk:A Full and True Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender

Pornography and sexual content
Despite the implications of the frontspiece by Aubrey Beardsley, the actual book is NOT pornographic, even by Victorian standards -- it is written in a style that reminds me of Tom Robbins. It's definitely a comedy, NOT an "erotic novel" or anything like that. The scenes of the flogging are not really meant to be very sexual, but rather are supposed to be religious in nature (though the characters in the book acknowledge it's a problem that some people experience such feelings from the whippings.) The bulk of the story is about the quirky characters being encountered and hilarious situations experienced.

I move that this should be removed from the categories "British Erotic Novels" and BSDM. --174.56.0.212 (talk) 23:30, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Not BDSM
This book was tagged "BDSM Literature" but as the other poster said, this is really not anything of the sort. Calling this BDSM literature would be like calling South Park a BDSM show.--2601:8C3:8200:75B7:BD00:FDF:40EC:897 (talk) 02:21, 12 August 2017 (UTC)