In 2013, a similar controversy arose in a 7th grade setting in Northville, Michigan, focusing on explicit passages about sexuality.

Although written in 1928, the unexpurgated version of the book was banned because of its sexually explicit passages.

Though dedicated to Malory it draws rather from the earlier texts, curiously intertwining references to Kaballah and explicit erotic passages.

In order to get past magazine censorship, Hardy was forced to cut some of the more sexually explicit passages.

Later, after issuing what she called "our usual cautionary tale," she did read one of the most explicit passages.

Many of the more sexually explicit passages were removed and, fearing libel suits, pseudonyms were used for the book's "characters".

Henry Miller's 1934 novel, Tropic of Cancer, had explicit sexual passages and could not be published in the United States.

The document has no explicit passages allowing the entire Parliament to decide on a nominee.

In Jack Spijkerman's Kopspijkers she read an explicit passage of her book, angering Muslims and Christians.

The second speech is shorter than the first, but contains a slightly longer and more explicit passage regarding the genocide of the Jews.