obscenity

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

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. Henry Miller

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 Polański

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war. Henry Miller

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

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. Kurt Vonnegut

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