Definition of Obscenity

Obscenity

That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture.

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Obscenity Quotations

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
David Herbert Lawrence

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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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.
Herbert Marcuse

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
Roman Polanski

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
Jef I. Richards

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

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.
Jane Alexander

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Obscenity Translations

obscenity in Italian is lascivia
obscenity in Spanish is obscenidad

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