To all of the people who are saying "it came out in 1890, how bad could it be?", allow me to point you in the direction of Fanny Hill, which was published in 1748, and was the first modern erotic novel. While it technically came out prior to both the Victorian and Edwardian eras, it founded a literary genre that was quite popular throughout the period, if considered immoral, illegal, and kept hidden from polite society. <link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_literature#The_19th_century>This Wikipedia article should be eye opening. Edit: The article is not entirely safe for work. It's mostly dry text, but there's a few pictures single picture which I hadn't noticed before posting; what is the rule on linking to an encyclopedia article that contains what are technically adult images? They aren't
It isn't there for prurient reasons.
Edit: Forgot to do an on topic. I wasn't even aware that Dorian Gray had been censored until I read this article. I may have to pick up a copy, just to check it out.
