Word: smut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy. Although the First and 14th Amendments guarantee freedom of speech and press, the Supreme Court has cast obscenity outside these rights, just as it does incitement to violence or publication of military secrets. But one trouble is that many cities and states have tried to suppress smut even before it reaches the public. This the court calls "prior restraint," meaning that a state invades freedom of expression if it bans obscenity on such vague grounds as "objectionable" before proving its case in a legal hearing...
...preposterous revelations fraught with pop psychology, an excess that even the book avoided. Seems Peppard isn't such a bad sort, after all. He became rich, ruthless and depraved because his father had hated him ever since-ah, well. Presumably, after savoring nearly three hours of feisty smut, the audience will be delighted to learn that it couldn't have been dished out by a nicer fella...
...Commission based its suppressions solely on the computed obscenity density of all publications sold in the Commonwealth, its efforts would be of greater value to the community. A scientific study of the obscenity densities of publications currently selling in Harvard Square alone has shown a glut of smut with obscenity densities far exceeding Fanny Hill...
...Eros, Ginzburg also published a scatological newsletter called Liaison and a book, The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity, written by a promiscuous housewife. U.S. District Attorney Drew J. T. O'Keefe agreed with the defense contention that Ginzburg was not the ordinary, back-alley sort of smut-peddler. "He's worse," said O'Keefe, and asked the court for "the most substantial sentence it possibly can give." Ginzburg said he would appeal...
...Smut Blackout. Police in Tokyo and other cities quietly started their cleanup campaign early this year. For one thing, they banned the manufacture and sale of a variety of ingenious aphrodisiac devices such as battery-powered vibrators, for whose production Japan is famous. Plainclothesmen were posted at the special "sex drugstores" where the gimmicks had been sold...