My Uncle Oswald | Literary Precedents
In an interview, Dahl remarked that his earliest stories had been sexually tasteful, that only in midlife did he start writing about sex. This is not entirely true; in the short story "Madame Rosette," from the short-story collection Over to You (1946), sex is a prominent theme. On the other hand, in the 1960s Dahl became one of numerous writers to take advantage of the loosening of censorship laws and greater public tolerance to write sexually explicit fiction. Already a well-established writer for "slick" magazines, Dahl would have found writing a sexy tale for Playboy to...
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