User blog comment:AustinDR/PE Removal: Ellen Berent Harland (Leave Her to Heaven)/@comment-33497615-20190516113809/@comment-2059440-20190517011205

era is VERY important for heinous standards, a work from 50s, 60s, 70s or earlier is not going to get away with the graphic stuff we get in the 80s, 90s and modern era - especially 50s and 60s.. which was when censorship was at its peak : society as a whole just would not allow media to be out and about in public that had the level of sex and violence as today (of course they had stuff we would never allow today such as racism etc but again.. culture and era of work should come into play).

just like how ancient stories involving heroes had them commit acts we in modern world see as monstrous, to them it was not seen as such (Victorians really cracked down on "obscene" content - hence why they "sanitized" many fairy tales to remove the original gory content).