Talk:Banned in Boston

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Whitman
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is said to have been banned in Boston.

Rlquall 22:31, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Was it or wasnt it? Facts, please! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:6145:5100:4D84:304A:A8E9:EA19 (talk) 01:16, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Trivia section
If there was ever a wiki page that needed a trivia/popular culture section, it's this one. 64.131.243.239 16:13, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Examples would be useful, but see Trivia sections. -- Beland (talk) 03:03, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * There's an episode of the TV Series MASH in which Hawkeye his cohorts try to get ahold of a film which was "banned in Boston." Supposedly about an "unsatisfied virgin" they thought they were going to get a blue movie.  Maj. Charles Winchester (from Boston) warned them not to get their hopes up saying that Boston "would ban Pinnochio."  When they finally get the film, it turns out to be a boring potboiler that Boston banned simply because an actress says the word "virgin." Yanqui9 (talk) 05:17, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, the film in question was "The Moon is Blue", which was far from a potboiler. It was nominated for some Academy Awards, and won a few others. The swamp rats found it boring because they were expecting some lurid skin flick. Wschart (talk) 13:36, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

"public exhibitions of sex"
From the HISTORY section: "Boston was founded by Puritans in the early 17th century. Puritans held highly negative views regarding public exhibitions of sex. "

What is the second sentence intended to mean? That Puritans frowned upon sexual intercourse in public?

Wanderer57 (talk) 21:25, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Boston: de facto or de iure theocracy?
Was Boston a "de iure" theocracy (as written in the text), or rather a "de facto" theocracy? -- megA (talk) 20:11, 6 June 2012 (UTC)