Outrage aux bonnes mœurs  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Inversions, the first French gay journal is published between 1924 and 1926, it stopped publication after the French government charged the publishers with "Outrage aux bonnes mœurs". Its full title was Inversions ... in art, literature, philosophy and science. Sexual inversion was a term used by sexologists in the late 19th and early 20th century, to refer to homosexuality.

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In the French history of censorship, one year after the promulgation of the law on freedom of the press during the French Third Republic, a first restriction is brought on by the law of August 2 1882 on the offense of "outrage aux bonnes mœurs" by way of the press, posters or any other writing. The law had as object to limit the proliferation of erotic and pornographic literature reported by the police.

See also

• Liste des ouvrages répréhensibles et obscènes pour être dénoncés au Comité de Salut public
• Public morality
• French censorship
• Outrage