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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
Though censorship was known in english law quite early on, it wasn'...