As mores change, the structure of censorship changes. For example, The Decameron was openly displayed in the seventeenth century, but hidden in a locked cabinet in the Nineteenth. So this type of censorship is very much limited to the society it issues from. Lysistrata by Aristophanes pushes buttons in more than one society. Male dominated societies fear the female dominance it portrays.
Homophobic societies shy away and warlike societies run to ban it.
Oedipus loved his mother, and that has had censor's underwear in a bunch for more than two millennia now. The Satiricon by Petronius Arbiter has been ruffling society's feathers for quite a while. Banned from ancient Rome to modern New York, Mr. Arbiter seems to have found a way to annoy every prude who ever lived. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was, in fact, a response to, or even a satire of, Puritanism. Therefore, it's appearance lead to it being banned in New England.