This is a cause for ‘age restrictions’, where there is a minimum age requirement to look at a certain book or piece of information. I believe, that this is a recognizable idea as it helps readers find a book that they are most likely to find interesting, and, will help parents protect their children from any unwanted information that may be too early for them to take in and cause a traumatic experience. On the other hand, completely forbidding readers who may wish to read specific books when they are under the age limit may not be such a fine idea as this will limit the readers’ growth rate of their ability to …show more content…
Like dust spread by volcanic eruptions, people, especially out of curiosity, will soon know about these books which have a ‘special’ title familiarized as ‘forbidden’, and will soon desire for these ‘suddenly rare objects’. By stirring up a commotion about these books, people are attracting more attention to what they wish not to be seen, resulting in an exactly opposite phenomenon. Also, there would be samizdat versions of these books traded between the people, like there was for the book “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D.H. Lawrence. This book was originally published in 1928 at Florence but was banned in England due to its explicit content about adultery and a love affair, saying that it was too obscene and corrupted to be viewed by the population. A perfect example of a prohibited book and its illegal