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Obscenity is a speech act or image which evokes disgust or revulsion in people, usually on moral grounds.
US law
It is also a legal category of speech, nominally "unprotected" under modern first amendment law. The category, however, defies neat legal classification.[1]
References
- ↑ Redrup v. New York (deciding obscenity cases on a case-by-case basis, without promulgating a general rule.