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Kathy Acker wrote a book called Blood and Guts in High School that was on the Master’s English Programme at Auckland University until the early nineties when the Chief Censor banned the book. I daren’t put into words why the book was banned as I’m sick of being moderated. Suffice it to say, there was a few pencil drawings of a female anatomy and the word c**t was used in the actual text. It was a real indictment of the censorship process at the time as obvioously X rated material was making it into the sleazy bookstores all around the country. It begs the question that if some of that material had been on the reading list of English at Master’s level whether it would have been banned too.