Obsenity, Media Law

Now I am not a prude by any stretch of the imagination, I have been known to use language that would make my mother slap the back of my head. I must say though that I use it in the confides of designated areas where it is more readily accepted. As we tell children as they grow up,” you have an indoor voice and an outdoor voice.” I would say, as we create our personality we have a selection of words and images we allow at different places and times. One of these selections of words and images contain obscene

So now we know that if it looks like a duck, it fly’s like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. If however it doesn’t do all three of these things at the same time, it is not a duck, believe it or not.

ob•scen•i•ty ( b-s n -t , b-), n. pl. ob•scen•i•ties

More shocking thought is the FCC’s Response. “As a threshold matter, the material aired during the “Golden Globe Awards” program does not describe or depict Sexual and excretory activities and organs. The word “fucking” may be crude and offensive, but, in the context presented here, did not describe sexual or excretory organs or activities. Rather, the performer used the word “fucking” as an adjective or expletive to emphasize an exclamation.”

OBSCENE, OBSCENITY - Such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law and the general corruption of morals.

The first test of whether the purpose of the material is an appeal to the interest of the "average person of the community as a whole" is a “judgment” which must be made according to the standards as would be applied by an “average person” with an “average and normal attitude toward, and interest in, sex”. Community standards are set by what is accepted in the community as a whole. This is to say, obscenity is not a matter of individual taste or how the material affects an individual juror. It is instead a test is how an average member of the community as a whole would view the material.

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