Hosted by Anne O Nomis, featuring international guests. Ever wanted to be a part of an intimate, interesting and entirely subversive bookclub? The Passionfruit Forbidden Book Club features 12 books which were once banned due to their erotic or so called 'obscene' content. Its publishers and authors were in some cases jailed and prosecuted, and books taken off the shelves and seized by law enforcement. The Catholic Church had an 'Index Librorum Prohibitorum' - Index of Banned Books - which included publications deemed heretical, anti-clerical or lascivious. (They banned everyone from Gallileo in 1616 - who had dared suggest the earth revolved around the sun, right through to feminist Simone de Beauvoir's book 'The Second Sex' banned in 1956. So it's unsurprising that much of our literature with erotic themes was also banned by the church.) Sex historian Anne O Nomis has curated the club and will host it on...