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'It took a book about masturbation to bring down Australia’s repressive regime of literary censorship. Philip Roth’s hugely controversial, highly sexualised novel Portnoy’s Complaint is a book about the habit that in the 1960s scarcely dared speak its name.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Quadrant vol. 64 no. 6 June 2020 21358995 2020 periodical issue 2020 pg. 85-87
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