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A fact from Banned in Boston appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 July 2004. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that items which were " Banned in Boston" (i.e. censored) came to be seen as more sexy and attractive elsewhere? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/July.

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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is said to have been banned in Boston.

Rlquall 22:31, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Was it or wasnt it? Facts, please! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:6145:5100:4D84:304A:A8E9:EA19 ( talk) 01:16, 11 May 2016 (UTC) reply

If there was ever a wiki page that needed a trivia/popular culture section, it's this one. 64.131.243.239 16:13, 7 November 2007 (UTC) reply

Examples would be useful, but see Wikipedia:Trivia sections. -- Beland ( talk) 03:03, 20 March 2008 (UTC) reply

There's an episode of the TV Series MASH in which Hawkeye his cohorts try to get ahold of a film which was "banned in Boston." Supposedly about an "unsatisfied virgin" they thought they were going to get a blue movie. Maj. Charles Winchester (from Boston) warned them not to get their hopes up saying that Boston "would ban Pinnochio." When they finally get the film, it turns out to be a boring potboiler that Boston banned simply because an actress says the word "virgin." Yanqui9 ( talk) 05:17, 29 July 2010 (UTC) reply

Actually, the film in question was "The Moon is Blue", which was far from a potboiler. It was nominated for some Academy Awards, and won a few others. The swamp rats found it boring because they were expecting some lurid skin flick. Wschart ( talk) 13:36, 31 May 2013 (UTC) reply

From the HISTORY section: "Boston was founded by Puritans in the early 17th century. Puritans held highly negative views regarding public exhibitions of sex. "

What is the second sentence intended to mean? That Puritans frowned upon sexual intercourse in public?

Wanderer57 ( talk) 21:25, 4 February 2012 (UTC) reply

Was Boston a "de iure" theocracy (as written in the text), or rather a "de facto" theocracy? -- megA ( talk) 20:11, 6 June 2012 (UTC) reply