Fanny Hill - an erotic novel first published in 1748 - is among titles removed from blacklist that has shrunk from 257 publications to 17
Singapore has drastically cut its blacklist of banned books and publications, finally allowing citizens to read an erotic novel first published in the 18th century, but a host of adult magazines remain proscribed.
It is no longer a crime to own a copy of the historic English text Fanny Hill or some anti-colonial and communist publications dating back to Singapore’s troubled early years as a republic in the 1960s.
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