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Obscenity Defined
An elusive concept used in the context of criminal law to describe a publication which is illegal because it is morally corruptive. The common law has struggled with this word as society has evolved towards greater tolerance of alternative sexual behavior. Historically, it included any lewd material which had no apparent social value, which was offensive to contemporary community standards of decency, and even material which tended to invoke impure sexual thoughts. As an example of a modern definition, Canada has defined obscene material as any publication a dominant characteristic of which is the undue exploitation of sex, or of sex and crime, horror, cruelty or violence.
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- SafeLibraries. org
- Westlaw article obscenity
- Independent: Blogger who wrote about killing Girls Aloud cleared: "Darryn Walker's case was the first time that the 1959 Obscene Publications Act had been applied to written material on the internet. His case was regarded as a test which could have had far-reaching ramifications for bloggers and publishers of online fiction. ... Mr Walker, 35, was arrested in February 2008 by officers from Scotland Yard's Obscene Publications Unit who were alerted to his story by the Internet Watch Foundation.&qu ot;
- BBC NEWS | UK | Obscene stories or free speech?: Obscenity laws are rarely used, especially for content on the internet, and where they are invoked, it is almost always images, not words, that are the subject. The standard in such cases is whether the material is likely "to deprave or corrupt those reading or viewing it", but historically this has proved very hard to meet.
Thu Jun 18
- Watch Your Language or Go to Prison for E-Mail Obscenity?: Sharing an obscene sexual fantasy over e-mail is a federal crime that enjoys no protection under the First Amendment, a federal appeals court said Monday, in a decision that drew sharp dissent from one judge and potentially set the stage for a Supreme Court appeal.
- New England Watch and Ward Society. Records, 1918-1957: Finding Aid
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