A brief history of obscenity in the U.S., featuring three works of art deemed controversial What’s an obscenity? The question is hard, partly because the answer keeps changing. Forty-three years ago ...
A new bill in Congress threatens to dictate what Americans can read, watch and say online. On May 8, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah and Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., introduced the “Interstate Obscenity Definition ...
Sen. Mike Lee (R–Utah) wants to redefine obscenity in a way that could render all sorts of legal sexual content illegal. His proposal would make the definition of obscenity so broad that it could ban ...