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	Obscenity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many cultures have produced laws to define what is considered to be obscene, and censorship is often used to try to suppress or control materials that are obscene under these definitions, usually including, but not limited to pornographic material.
		Obscenity law in England and Wales is currently governed by the Obscene Publications Act, but obscenity law goes back much further into the English common law.
		The conviction in 1727 of Edmund Curll for the publication of Venus in the Cloister or the Nun in her Smock under the common law offence of disturbing the peace appears to be the first conviction for obscenity in the United Kingdom, and set a legal precedent for other convictions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Obscenity (1758 words)

	Obscenity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Obscenity and its parent adjective obscene take their derivation from the Greek terms ob skene, which literally means "offstage".
		The Supreme Court has ruled that the possession of obscenity is legal but that the distribution or transmission of obscenity is not.
		He asserts that being prohibited from obtaining (due to a ban on distribution) that which is legal to possess, amounts in effect, to a ban on possession.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Obscenity (1121 words)

	Books-on-Law: Book Reviews - JURIST: The Law Professors' Network
		Baer is angry at the law's failure to give women what we need to have – the same quality of life that men have – and she is angry at feminist jurisprudence for its failure to grasp how that should be done.
		Free-will assumptions, written from liberalism onto law, often are not true for women, when one examines the contexts and conditions of their lives; yet, they are used to individualize responsibility and impose it on women.
		Baer prefers dominance-feminism, which she praises for recognizing women's vulnerabilities to male violence and law's role in supporting male power and domination; but, she concedes that this gender-power theory is regularly criticized by feminists and others, who blur descriptions of the "situation" of women (subjection to male dominance) with the "situated" (descriptions of women themselves).
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /lawbooks/revdec99.htm (13520 words)

	Obscenity and media law
		Obscenity laws are concerned with prohibiting lewd, filthy, or disgusting words or pictures, and there are major disagreements as to what is or isnt obscene and what role the government should play in enforcing social or cultural morals.
		Obscenity and pornography are found in many cultures dating back millenia, but were kept from public view.
		The rule allowed a publication to be judged for obscenity based on isolated passages of a work considered out of context and judged by their apparent influence on most susceptible readers, such as children or weak-minded adults.
	www.runet.edu /~wkovarik/class/law/1.12obscenity.html (2560 words)

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	www.nd.edu /~lawlib/innopac/acq200207.html (6062 words)

	Law.com - U.S. Attorney's Porn Fight Gets Bad Reviews
		He reportedly has prosecuted more than 100 state and federal obscenity cases and is the prosecutor who went after Hustler publisher Larry Flynt in the early 1980s.
		Sources say Acosta was told by the FBI officials during last month's meeting that obscenity prosecution would have to be handled by the crimes against children unit.
		Sharp said the initiative is necessary because local law enforcement and city attorneys get "crushed" by high-powered lawyers hired by adult book stores or video stores when there are efforts to shut those establishments down.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1125318960389 (1208 words)

	Spectrum Management and Telecommunications - Obscenity - Overview of Applicable Law on Obscenity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Obscenity is defined in the Canadian Criminal Code as any publication whose dominant characteristic is the undue exploitation of sex, or of sex together with crime, horror, cruelty or violence.
		The courts have also characterized the distinction between production and distribution of obscene materials on the one hand section 163(1) and selling or exposing to public view on the other (s.163(2)), by noting that the latter is intended to cover activities in which the accused deals only with the ultimate consumer.
		This distinction seems to have been rejected by a British Columbia Provincial Court as not necessarily being applicable to the supply of materials by computer technology.
	strategis.ic.gc.ca /epic/internet/insmt-gst.nsf/en/sf02988e.html (673 words)

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		This is an examination of the general nature of law, the broad concerns of jurisprudence, the study of comparative law, and many of the issues raised in the literature of legal philosophy.
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	www.nd.edu /~lawlib/innopac/acq200211.html (6611 words)

	R18 certificate - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
		Since the boundary of British obscenity law is vague, the BBFC deliberately errs on the side of caution.
		The R18 classification was created in 1982 in response to the recommendatations in 1979 of the Home Office Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship chaired by Sir Bernard Williams.
		Originally it was only used for films featuring simulated sex only, but the BBFC found itself forced to award R18 certificates to hardcore films in 2000 after a series of legal appeals and a judicial review of those appeals.
	www.indopedia.org /R18.html (634 words)

	R18 certificate
		It is intended to provide a classification for works that are within British obscenity laws, but exceed what the BBFC considers acceptable for its 18 certificate.
		It specifies in detail what kinds of acts are permitted to be depicted in works receiving an R18 certificate, and which are not.
		It is unclear whether this marks the end of the R18 certificate, or whether the BBFC will apply an "artistic merit" test to distinguish between films which are acceptable for 18 certificates and those which recieve only R18 certificates.
	www.jahsonic.com /R18.html (507 words)

	Books-on-Law: Book Reviews
		Her evidence is that advocates of liberalized censorship laws denigrated not only clergymen and the moralists of the anti-vice societies, but the club women who campaigned alongside them.
		For instance, the older writ of debt permitted defendants to "wage their law," that is, deny under oath that they owed the debt and proffer eleven "oath-helpers," who would support the denial, often perjuriously.
		Christopher Slobogin is Stephen C. O'Connell Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and the author or co-author of a number of books, including Psychological Evaluations for the Courts: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers, and Criminal Procedure: An Analysis of Cases and Concepts.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /lawbooks/revapr01.htm (12736 words)

	News: July 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Blair is concerned that controversial plans to scrap the law that outlaws homosexual "cruising", group sex and kissing in public could be damaging to Labour in the run-up to the general election.
		JackBoots Straw is known to support changing the law as part of a wider reform of the country's outdated sexual offences legislation, but has been told by Blair to shelve the plans that concern gay sex.
		The law, which dates back to 1885, makes it illegal for adult males to have any form of sexual relationship where there are more than two people present.
	www.melonfarmers.co.uk /arne0700.htm (3042 words)

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	Obscenity Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Please look for Obscenity Law, Federal Obscenity Law and Obscenity Law History to find more Obscenity Law information.
		Contains some definitions and justifications for obscenity laws, but the primary purpose of this site is to sell their journal.
		The act's obscenity provisions are targeted by the new challenge.
	obscenitylaw.info (568 words)

	Judges refuse to overturn Net obscenity law \| Tech News on ZDNet
		The New York panel on Monday rejected arguments from Barbara Nitke, a fine art photographer who specializes in sadomasochistic imagery, who had filed suit in December 2001 to overturn the law.
		The lawsuit had targeted the Communications Decency Act's restrictions dealing with obscenity and community standards, arguing that applying old-fashioned geographical rules about what's acceptable makes no sense on the Internet.
		The judges agreed that Nitke was right to be worried about being prosecuted under the law--but concluded that she did not provide sufficient evidence to justify striking down that portion of the CDA.
	news.zdnet.com /2110-9588_22-5804970.html (397 words)

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