Word: smut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...online content--services that can be downloaded, including music and games--in the U.S. and Western Europe, according to a May 1999 study by research firm Datamonitor. But taking sanitized sex to the masses--and particularly to women--has given purveyors of erotica an entirely new audience. "Taking the smut out of sex is a clever thing to do," says Michael Poyner, retailing expert with London consultants Credo Group...
...Nerve's timely launch on the June 1997 day that the Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act earned it a considerable amount of press coverage, as its buzzword-description of "literate smut" was transmitted to adolescents everywhere through articles in Time, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. Maintained and edited by a young (unmarried) couple, the magazine premiers works by some semi-famous as well as not-famous-at-all authors, aiming to make readers think deeply about...
BGLTSA has personally insulted homosexuals and their supporters at large. But although a great many of us would rather not have children passers-by reading BGLTSA's exhortations to pedophilia or obscure, nauseating references to auto-oral-menstrual-eroticism, I saw no conservatives tear down Tuesday's ubiquitous smut. Imagine my outrage, then, upon seeing an avowed liberal, wearing the "coming out day" sticker, nonchalantly destroy two Republican candidate posters Tuesday evening. This movement must abandon its false pretense of open-mindedness. The increasingly bogus "queer" agenda won no supporters and gained at least this opponent today...
...city on Monday. Flynt and his brother Jimmy are charged with violating local obscenity laws, some of the most stringent in the country, by selling sexually explict videos to a 14-year-old at their local Hustler Magazine and Gifts store. Flynt who?s been busy baiting Cincinnati?s smut-shunning political establishment for years, wants to do nothing less in the current case than "to smash the current legal definition of obscenity, which allows the offensiveness of materials to be judged by local community standards," says TIME writer-reporter Joel Stein, who has followed the case...
...anywhere else in the country, can log on to porn web sites from anywhere else in the world, how can local standards exist, let alone be defined, for any medium? This is the argument Flynt wants to press and win at his trial, and thereby "turn himself from smut peddler to First Amendment statesman," says Stein. But Flynt may not get his chance. "The prosecutors in this case were smart," says Stein. "They sent underage kids to buy the porn." And the laws on protecting youngsters are especially stringent -- and difficult to overturn on appeal. Flynt may therefore never...