Word: smuts
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...nineteenth century, tired of children, is gone They've all gone into a world of light; the farm's my own . . . Grandpa! Have me, hold me, cherish me! Tears smut my fingers...
...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...
...court's current obscenity doctrine rests on a 1957 decision (Roth-Alberts) which upheld the conviction of two mail-order smut peddlers. At that time, the court explained that obscenity was material that was "utterly without redeeming social importance." The Roth test is "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest," and whether, in addition, the material "goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...
...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...