CSC #9 "If you're 15, I am 15" with Crush and Theresa Clasen

After a prolonged summer break, Crush is back with a vengeance, treating dark and diseased souls in literature and life. We are joined in this journey by Theresa and her hushed rendition of D.H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The novel sparked a debate among US Senators on the limits of the First Amendment: one senator claimed of Lawrence’s work that “[i]t was written by a man with a diseased mind and a soul, so black that he would obscure even the darkness of hell!” Now, in 2017, we move from the vulgarity and misogyny of literature to those of life: Robert Sylvester Kelly, in the wake of recurring allegations of sexual misconduct, has been accused of trapping six women in a sex “cult.” The ninth installment of CSC confronts not so much R. Kelly himself but the ethical dilemma of becoming complicit in his alleged crimes by recognizing his enduring musical genius.