Are You Obscene?
Dave Monroe
against.the.dave at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 13:27:21 CDT 2010
ob•scene [uhb-seen] — adjective
1. designed to incite lust or depravity
2. in crass disregard of moral or ethical principles
3. so excessive as to be offensive.
Are You Obscene?
In 1957, Allen Ginsberg’s poem HOWL was put on trial because “the
words and the sense of the writing is obscene.” 500 copies of the book
were seized and a landmark obscenity trial followed. Today, over 1
million copies of HOWL have been published and the poem is widely
considered a landmark in 20th century literature.
Everyone has a different opinion about what’s obscene.
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http://areyouobscene.com/
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