The freedom to read is essential to the democratic way of life. But
             today, that freedom is under attack. Private groups and public authorities
             everywhere are working to remove both books and periodicals from sale, to
             exclude certain books from public schools, to censor and silence magazines
             and newspapers, and to limit "controversial" books and periodicals to the
             general public. The suppression of reading materials is suppression of
             creative thought. Books and periodicals are not the only ones being
             suppressed by pressures to the political and social systems. They are also
             being brought against the educational system, films, radio, television, and
             against the graphic and theatre arts. However or whenever these attacks
             occur, they usually fall at least one of the following categories:
             Religion
             War & Peace (Violence)
             Sociology & Race
             Language
             Inappropriate Adolescent Behaviour
             What is Obscenity? Clearly something hard to talk about constructively.
             "Obscenity" is difficult to discuss honestly. After all, what makes a thing
             obscene? It is Something too vague perhaps to be defined. It's an elusive
             term we use, but can't explain. Different people often see things
             differently. Some see obscenity in nude pictures, statues, paintings, etc.
             While others find less obscenity in these things. All the same, "obscene"
             isn't the same as "wrong" or "bad". Clearly obscenity is not identical with
             evil. It only covers a single segment of it. But what is that segment? A
             look at the words "obscenity" and "pornography" suggests that it is a
             segment that didn't worry people very much till relatively recently.
             Though censorship was known in english law quite early on,
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