• An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time. It is derived from the Latin obscēnus, obscaenus, "boding...
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  • "Holy Mountains": Tankian (main), Malakian (second voice) "Vicinity of Obscenity": Tankian "She's Like Heroin": Malakian (main), Tankian (second voice)...
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  • Latin obscenity is the profane, indecent, or impolite vocabulary of Latin, and its uses. Words deemed obscene were described as obsc(a)ena (obscene, lewd...
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  • United States obscenity law deals with the regulation or suppression of what is considered obscenity and therefore not protected speech or expression under...
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  • The Miller test, also called the three-prong obscenity test, is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining whether speech or expression can...
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    in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon in 2003. Bruce paved the way for counterculture-era comedians. His trial for obscenity was a...
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  • The Texas obscenity statute is a statute prohibiting the sale of sex toys in Texas. The law was introduced in 1973, and was last updated in 2003. While...
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    "borderline pornography" (or "borderline obscenity") was made in the 1950s and 1960s by American jurists discussing obscenity laws. "Borderline pornography" appealed...
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  • Twin Obscenity is a Norwegian death/black metal band.[citation needed] They borrowed their name from Zhar and Lloigor, collectively known as the Twin...
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    Obscenity is a German death metal band from Oldenburg that formed in 1989. The band has released ten studio albums, their most recent being Summoning...
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    Max Hardcore (category People convicted of obscenity)
    two and a half years in prison (2009–2011), convicted in a trial for obscenity. Max Hardcore's films generally consist of sexual acts executed by himself...
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    and Intellectual Property Section formed in 1996 Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS). Created in 1987, the section comprises approximately 15...
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    erotic depictions various people made attempts to suppress them under obscenity laws, censor, or make them illegal. Such grounds and even the definition...
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    company Extreme Associates. Zicari was prosecuted for distribution of obscenity by the United States Department of Justice in 2004. The case was dismissed...
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  • Miller v. California (category United States obscenity case law)
    decision of the U.S. Supreme Court clarifying the legal definition of obscenity as material that lacks "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific...
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  • Lady Chatterley's Lover (category Obscenity controversies in literature)
    obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books, which won the case and quickly sold three million copies. The book was also banned for obscenity...
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  • I know it when I see it (category United States obscenity case law)
    Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart to describe his threshold test for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio. In explaining why the material at issue in the...
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    limitations or boundaries to freedom of speech relate to libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, incitement, fighting words, hate speech, classified...
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  • found to be obscene, whereas the first does not require a finding of obscenity. Child pornography first became illegal at the federal level in 1978,...
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    Comstock laws (category Obscenity law)
    any use of the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following items: obscenity, contraceptives, abortifacients, sex toys, personal letters with any sexual...
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  • The Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988, title VII, subtitle N of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United...
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  • depictions of minors may still be found illegal under U.S. federal obscenity law. The obscenity law further states in section C "It is not a required element...
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    Damnation (redirect from Damn (obscenity))
    Damnation (from Latin damnatio) is the concept of divine punishment and torment in an afterlife for actions that were committed, or in some cases, not...
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    Since 1857, a series of obscenity laws known as the Obscene Publications Acts have governed what can be published in England and Wales. The classic definition...
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  • containing information likely to be of use to a terrorist, treason, sedition, obscenity, indecency including corruption of public morals and outraging public...
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    them "pornographic", and attempted to have them suppressed under other obscenity laws, with varying degrees of success. Such films continued to be produced...
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    Elvis Presley (category Obscenity controversies in music)
    Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Known as the "King of Rock...
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  • The Obscenity Prosecution Task Force (OPTF) was an organization created in 2005 by the United States Department of Justice. The OPTF's job was to investigate...
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  • the Sections 292 to 294 of the Indian Penal Code are used to deal with obscenity. Most of these laws date back to 1860. The Section 292 of the Indian Penal...
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    Lady Gaga (category Obscenity controversies in music)
    Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (/ˈstɛfəni ˌdʒɜːrməˈnɒtə/ STEF-ən-ee JUR-mə-NOT-ə; born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American...
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