Let children come across good as well as bad things. MTV is unnecessarily criticised for dishing out obscenity.
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
Obscenity comes from grime.
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
I know who Cristiano Ronaldo is and he's a gorgeous looking guy. It would be an obscenity for him even to look at me as anything else but a mother figure while of course it is perfectly OK for me to look at him as a man.
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
As far as I am concerned, the whiners of Wall Street and the political pundits, power players, and the swarms of sycophantic, sound-bite-spewing sewage rats that surround them can stuff it. They are the wrong stuff, and their self-glorification is an obscenity. No matter what they say of themselves, they are not that important.
