Did you know that South Africa's apartheid regime reportedly banned Anna Sewell's Black Beauty? Why... because the horse was black? Geez, those people had some seriosuly messed up issues, man....

Or that in March 1996 a US high school took Shakespeare's Twelfth Night off the curriculum after the school board passed a "prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction" act because it includes a young woman who disguises herself as a boy?

Came across this website recently, which lists some books that have been banned in the past, and the reasons for them. The list is gobsmaking and ranges from the sublime ( like Lady Chatterly's Lover), to the ridiculous (Red Riding Hood? Are you kidding me?).

'Cause I'm not supposed to be typing anything at the moment, I'll leave you with the link and let you peruse this fascinating list for yourselves.

In the meantime, I shall rest my sore shoulder while pondering various ways to get my work banned somehwere, because nothing helps the sales of a book like it getting banned:)

Whats worse than banning a book is the way some have been re-written, like the Noddy books! *grrrr*

From the other direction (i.e. PC gone mad)

There are a series of pony books by Ruby Ferguson known as the Jill series. ("Jill's Gymkana", "A Stable for Jill" et seq.) Jill had a coal black pony called "Black Boy". When the books were republished in the 80s/90s the pony's name was changed to "Danny Boy" (wot, no complaints from the Irish) and even his colour was changed to skewbald.

At this point, I think we really need to focus on getting you a proper hobby. :) What about tatting?