A report on Obscenity and Lenny Bruce

Cover of an undated American edition of Fanny Hill, c. 1910

The 18th century book Fanny Hill has been subject to obscenity trials at various times (image: plate XI: The bathing party; La baignade)

Bruce at his arrest in 1961

Bruce in 1963, after being arrested in San Francisco

Poster for Bruce's last series of performances, which took place at The Fillmore in San Francisco on June 24 and 25, 1966

Bruce's grave at Eden Memorial Park Cemetery in Mission Hills, California

His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon in 2003.

- Lenny Bruce

Many historically important works have been described as obscene or prosecuted under obscenity laws, including the works of Charles Baudelaire, Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, and the Marquis de Sade.

- Obscenity

Cover of an undated American edition of Fanny Hill, c. 1910

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Oz (magazine)

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Independently published, alternative/underground magazine associated with the international counterculture of the 1960s.

Independently published, alternative/underground magazine associated with the international counterculture of the 1960s.

OZ London, No.33, February 1971. Cover image by Norman Lindsay

Oz London, No.28: the Schoolkids Issue

Oz London, No.33, back cover advertising "A Gala Benefit for the Oz Obscenity Trial"

Oz London, No.31, November 1970, pp. 1 and 2

Oz London, No.31. The text in the lower right corner says: "He drives a Maserati / She's a professional model / The boy is the son of the / art editor of Time magazine / Some revolution!"

Oz London, No.33, p. 6

In both Australia and the UK, the creators of Oz were prosecuted on charges of obscenity.

Influenced by the radical comedy of Lenny Bruce, Neville and friends decided to found a "magazine of dissent".