Obscenity

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Meaning of Obscenity

In criminal law. Such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law and the general corruption of morals. It may consist in written or spoken words, conduct, pictures, or effigies. It need not be couched in obscene or vulgar terms if the idea conveyed tends to produce indecency. 16 Blachf. (U. S.) 362.

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Synonyms of Obscenity

noun

  • bawdiness
  • coarseness
  • dirtiness
  • immodesty
  • immorality
  • impropriety
  • indecency
  • indecorum
  • indelicacy
  • lechery
  • lewdness
  • lubricity
  • obscemtas
  • offensiveness
  • pornography
  • ribaldry
  • salaciousness
  • salacity
  • scurrillity
  • smut
  • smuttiness
  • turpitudo
  • unchastity
  • vileness
  • vulgarity

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  • Law Dictionaries.
  • Censorship; Federal Communications Commission; Freedom of Speech; Mass Communications Law; Feminism; Profanity; Regulation; Sexuality; Supreme Court; Violence; Freedom of Speech; Pornography.
  • Further Reading

    H. M. Clor, Obscenity and Public Morality (1969, repr. 1985); D. S. Moretti, Obscenity and Pornography (1984). Dworkin, Andrea. 1981. Pornography: Men Possessing Women. New York: Perigee.

    Lane, Frederick S. 2000. Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age. New York: Routledge.

    MacKinnon, Catharine A., and Andrea Dworkin. 1997. In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    Strossen, Nadine. 1995. Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights. New York: Scribner.

    Robert Jensen

    Obscenity, Sexual Behaviour and the Law

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