Distinguish between pornography and obscenity.
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Pornography refers to literature, art, films, speech, and so on that are intended to be sexually arousing, or presumed to be arousing, in nature. It may be softcore (suggestive) or hard-core, which usually involves explicit depictions of some sort of genitalia and sexual activity.
The word obscene refers to that which is foul, disgusting, or lewd, and is used as a legal term for that which is offensive to the authorities or to society. Pornography has never been illegal, but obscenity is. In the 1957 Roth case, the Supreme Court explicitly stated that obscenity was not protected by the First Amendment-which guarantees freedom of speech and the press. It also ruled that not all sexual expression is obscene, defining obscenity as material "which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest." The current standard definition of obscenity by the Supreme Court in the 1973 case of Miller v. California seems to have as its goal to define as obscenity "hard-core pornography" in the popular sense.
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