Naomi Wolf illuminates a dramatic history - how a single English law in 1857 led to a maelstrom, with reverberations lasting down to our day. That law was the Obscene Publications Act which stated that love between men was illegal and anything referring to it also became obscene and unprintable. She depicts both a fascinating story and, crucially, an important way of understanding how we arrived at our ideas of 'normalcy' and 'deviancy'. Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love.