I suggested above just how easy it would be to "scandalize Victorians like Captain Whall" with lyrics that today would hardly elicit notice.

Well, I can't resist posting an example. It's extremity surprises even me.

From the "Literary World" (Boston) (July 23, 1887):

"Tolstoi...writes novels as dirty and obscene as the worst parts of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass.'"