This chapter studies Ōshima Nagisa’s In the Realm of the Senses, as well as its censorship trial. The book is divided into three discrete sections: first, twenty-four 7-by-10-inch color still photographs; second, the original screenplay that was distributed to the actors and staff prior to making the film; and third, several essays of criticism by Ōshima. In the tersely worded indictment, twelve of these photos and nine passages of the screenplay were identified as obscene. Japanese-film scholar Aaron Gerow noted in an article on the Realm trial, that the “obscenity[of the book]comes not from the text itself, but rather from the reception of that text.”