Legal Definition and Related Resources of Obscenity
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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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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