Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
I'm from the old school - you go where the power is, and you try to make fun of it. When it becomes off limits to say or do certain things without being brutalized or censored or whatever, it's unfortunate.
Attacking innocent people is always obscene.
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.