The novel Akira quotes in this week's episode is Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence. IIRC, the sex writing in it is by modern standards pretty tame. But it was the subject of a court case remembered in the UK as a sort of encapsulation of changed moral standards.

Partly this just forms an excuse for a poem: Larkin's 'Annus Mirabilis', which uses the Chatterley case as one of its markers for the sexual revolution. Which, typically, Larkin distances himself from…

Annus Mirabilis

Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) —
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles’ first LP.

Up to then there’d only been
A sort of bargaining,
A wrangle for the ring,
A shame that started at sixteen
And spread to everything.

Then all at once the quarrel sank:
Everyone felt the same,
And every life became
A brilliant breaking of the bank,
A quite unlosable game.

So life was never better than
In nineteen sixty-three
(Though just too late for me) —
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles' first LP.