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1656: a Boston court sentences a ship s captain to sit in the stocks for two hours for 'lewd and unseemly behavior' on the Sabbath. His offence? Arriving home that Sunday after three years at sea, he had kissed his wife. 1968: J. Edgar Hoover tries to ban the recording 'Two Virgins' because the cover depicts John Lennon and Yoko Ono stark naked from both directions. 1994: Lorena Bobbitt castrates her abusive husband and throws the offending organ across a highway only to see it reattached and star in pornographic movies. 2000: A stripper sues her plastic surgeon because her