[bloak]

> Lolita was published in the US

According to Wikipedia it was first published in France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita#Publication_and_recepti...

[DiscourseFan]

That’s a fascinating publication history but does in the end demonstrate my original point: once the french government got word of it they banned the book, whereas in the US, once it got a publisher, it basically proliferated unchecked, probably on account of the strong norms around freedom of speech.