It always amused me when Clarabelle Cow is seen reading “Three Weeks” in an old Mickey Mouse cartoon.
Forever Amber, by Kathleen Winsor. Filthy thing when it was published; now you find it in the “literature” section at Barnes & Noble 
See Post #10.
If y’all know the backstories or just anything juicy about the scandal, fee free to post it.
I loved that book!
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Heather Has Two Mommies
I know my grandmother read it and wouldn’t allow my mother to read it when she was a teenager in the late 40’s. It has an unmarried woman have in sex although not explicitly and she has a child out of wedlock. I’m telling you it was the rlaxing that did her in. 
Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller. (Hell, damn near everything Miller wrote.)
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.
And that is, of course, the cream of the jest.
It’s a pretty good book with a nice love story between two girls. The author behind it, though, came as a surprise to me. I had read her stuff before, back when I was in elementary school, but she was better known to me as the author of Prisoner of Vampires and a few compendiums of witches, vampires and other spookies.
But, yeah, good book.
Histoire d’O by Pauline Reage probably caused quite a stir when it was published.
Basic information I’ve read is that Kathleen Winsor was the very young bride of a war hero. She wrote the book after helping him research a college paper & became enamored of Restoration (or whatever era that was - it’s early) England. She wrote the damn thing out longhand, if I recall & only had that copy, which she blithely shipped off to a publisher. Thing was published while hubby was overseas & became an instant hot ticket. She & hubby ended up divorcing and she married several (3? 4?) more times - including a marriage to serial husband Artie Shaw. She wrote several more books, including “Star Money”, which is more or less a Roman a clef about her experience with the “Amber” phenom. She died very recently.
VCNJ~
Primary Colors by Joe Klein
Nine and a Half Weeks by Elizabeth McNeill
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
Forever, by Judy Blume.
I was a junior in High School when this one started attracting attention. Most of the outrage was that, in the book, two teenagers have sex, and nothing bad happens as a result. I had a very cool english teacher that year, and she said the book was being banned by the school library, but she owned several copies if any of us were interested in borrowing one. 
No Orchids For Miss Blandish, James Hadley Chase.
Last Exit To Brooklyn, Hubert Selby. This, rather than “Lady Chatterly’s Lover”, was the final nail in the coffin of censorship of literature in the UK.
I recently read “No Orchids…” and it’s icky sequel “Flesh of the Orchid”. I had to take a bath. Not inherently pornographic or anything…just…icky.
VCNJ~