When The Butcher and The Baby was first published by German underground magazine Pochende Faust (Pounding Fist) in 1983, few at the periodical realised it sounded the death knell for their company. Following the international outrage for Musalata’s Baby in a Blender, the European Union—driven by Mary Whitehouse’s NVLA—instigated legal action to prevent publication of the story. As a result, it was banned—along with Baby in a Blender and Midgets on a Meathook—from sale across Europe.
Whitehouse went on to declare it as, “evidence of modern society’s decline into depravity,” which led to the story being banned in the USA, Australia, and all countries involved in trade pacts with signatory nations.
In recent years, as global bans were rescinded, restrictions on the story have been lifted, but only Godless has shown the bravery to rerelease this abattoir abortion classic to the world. Now, outside of dark web distribution, it is finally available to the general public for the first time since its undemocratic and reactionary banning in the dark days of 1983.” DRIVE