Word: smuts
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...that affects only the locale for disseminating such marginal forms of free speech does not offend the First Amendment. Thus the court upheld a Detroit regulation requiring that at least 1,000 ft. separate such adult establishments. Under the ruling, city zoning authorities would be also free to concentrate smut outlets in a relatively small area, if they chose...
...Smut-Nuts and Peep-Creeps...
...round up all the smut-nuts, peep-creeps, massage-kneaders, and their exploiters and launch the raunch on an ark down our sewers...
...porn is scarcely confined to such strips. In Houston, the Bellaire News, which is a combination of a newsstand and a smut shop, is taking applications for the job of topless chauffeur who will whisk tourists in a black Cadillac from downtown hotels to its back room porno parlor. Ex-Prostitute Xaviera Hollander has sold 9 million copies of her paperbacks. Some 780 American theaters, including many elegant first-run houses, routinely show X-rated movies 52 weeks a year...
...nation's first recorded court decision did not come until 1815, when six hapless Philadelphians were convicted of showing for profit an indecent painting. The first federal restriction came in 1842 with the passage of a law that forbade importing obscene pictures. In 1865, in response to fears that smut had been corrupting the Union's soldiers, such things were barred from the mails...