Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
Attacking innocent people is always obscene.
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
The only thing that is obscene is censorship.