#obscenity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #obscenity, aggregated by home.social.
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"As the #scholar #BrettGary notes in an #essay in the #book Forged in #America: How #Irish- #Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation, it was two Jewish #NewYorkCity lawyers, #MorrisErnst and #AlexanderLindey, who “planned the battle to free #Ulysses from the clutches of the censors, making the story of #Joyce’s protagonist #LeopoldBloom, a #Dubliner of Irish and Jewish parentage, available for all the world to read.” In August 1931, two years before they’d finally bring the book to #trial in a federal courtroom in #NewYork City, #Lindey reminded his senior partner #Ernst of the stakes of their campaign: “I still feel very keenly that this would be the grandest #obscenity case in the #history of #law and #literature, and I am ready to do anything in the world to get it started.”
#Gary explains that “Ernst and Lindey’s defense of Ulysses needs to be situated in the context of their larger pursuit of what Ernst called ‘rational sex laws..."
https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/ulysses-jewish-women-and-that-petrol-emotion
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
All the governments of the world adopt elaborate methods of concealing truths which they consider undesirable, and inflict various forms of penalty upon those who spread knowledge which is thought bad for the population This applies especially to knowledge of the kind which is considered seditious, and the kind which is considered obscene. I shall not give instances, since, if I did, I should myself fall under the ban of the law.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/853…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #censorship #control #freepress #freespeech #government #knowledge #obscenity #pornography #publicgood #sedition #suppression #treason #truth
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FCC General Counsel Channels Founding Fathers To Falsely Claim First Amendment Allows Banning Porn
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Can the government punish you for mocking a politician by texting them something as salacious as a picture of Shrek? Should they punish you for such criticism? https://reason.com/2026/06/09/nude-shrek-text-to-ohio-state-senator-reportedly-lands-blogger-in-jail/
#censorship #FirstAmendment #freeSpeech #obscenity #Ohio #ShrekIsLove #USPolitics -
on a lighter linguistic note, I wonder whethher the #EHRC guidelines will add to the already voluminous range of British toilet euphemisms, e.g.
- "I'm off to take some statutary guidance"
- "I am going to drop a Falkiner"
- "she's currently Philippsoning after a heavy night"
- "mind you don't Starmer on your shoes"
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
How dreary to spend your time counting dirty words, but not reading the book. And how revealing of the person who is counting. We do find what we look for.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/837…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #books #censor #censorship #confirmationbias #obscenity #reading
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A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle
Someone sent me a clipping from a daily newspaper containing a list of ten books to be removed from library shelves because of their pornographic content. On the list was one of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia books. Also on the list was my book A Wind in the Door. I am totally baffled and frankly fascinated. This is the first time C. S. Lewis and I have been listed together as writers of pornography. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #obscenity #author #bookbanning #censorship #pornography #writing
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“The Kennedy Center Honors have been presented under that longstanding, historic name for the final time. (Or at least for the last time for the next three years.) To the surprise of probably few people, the awards program will henceforth be known as 'The Trump Kennedy Center Honors'.”:
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/kennedy-center-honors-name-change-trump-alternative-venue-1236675653/ #obscenity -
Bill Nye said it best on Last Week Tonight. ( Excerpt from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcro7dPqpA )
#BillNye #TheScienceGuy #JohnOliver #LastWeekTonight #HBO #ClimateChange #GreenNewDeal #ClimateCrisis #Fire #Fuck #Obscenity
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"Imagine any other political leader getting a pass for such behavior. ...
We live in a country where laws and societal norms are shattered every day — by the president. His abhorrent behavior has given those who want to break laws and undermine the country encouragement to do so. Our country has had its ups and downs, but no American has lived through anything like this before."
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"[Trump's obscene gesture and obscene statement to T.J. Sablula] was reported by the mainstream press like a run-of-the-mill wire service item: 'Trump makes obscene gesture,' wrote The New York Times. 'Trump flips-off apparent heckler,' reported NBC News.
That’s it? One would be excused for believing this is a bigger deal than that."
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A quotation from Margaret Atwood
There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There’s something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It’s like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) Canadian writer, literary critic, environmental activist
The Handmaid’s Tale, ch. 34 (1986)More info about this quote: wist.info/atwood-margaret/7986…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #margaretatwood #handmaidstale #deflation #degradation #humanizing #obscenity #perspective #power #powerful
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A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack upon morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise. So also with all other jokes, which always centre round cowardice, laziness, dishonesty or some other quality which society cannot afford to encourage.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-09), “The Art of Donald McGill,” Horizon MagazineMore info about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/79475/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #dirtyjokes #humor #jokes #morality #obscenity #rebellion
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The Barzakhness of the Graveverse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEegambJn0
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For How Long Did Ghalib and Manto Talk in Dozakhnama?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEegambJn0
#thedarkknaik #bookreview #dozakhnama #rabisankarbal #mirzaghalib #saadathasanmanto #urdu #india #pakistan #britishraj #partitionofindia #arunavasinha #mughalempire #alcoholism #prostitution #redlightdistricts #obscenity #pakteahouse #olddelhi #oldlahore #delhi #lahore #bankimpuraskar #grave #love #philosophy
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Mirza Ghalib's Legacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEegambJn0
#thedarkknaik #bookreview #dozakhnama #mirzaghalib #saadathasanmanto #urdu #india #pakistan #britishraj #partitionofindia #mughalempire #alcoholism #prostitution #obscenity #pakteahouse #olddelhi #oldlahore #delhi #lahore #grave #love #philosophy
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What's Wrong About Reading Books on Prostitutes in South Asia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEegambJn0
#thedarkknaik #bookreview #dozakhnama #rabisankarbal #mirzaghalib #saadathasanmanto #urdu #india #pakistan #britishraj #partitionofindia #arunavasinha #mughalempire #alcoholism #prostitution #redlightdistricts #obscenity #pakteahouse #olddelhi #oldlahore #delhi #lahore #bankimpuraskar #grave #love #philosophy
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The Beauty of Subconsciousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEegambJn0
#thedarkknaik #bookreview #dozakhnama #rabisankarbal #mirzaghalib #saadathasanmanto #urdu #india #pakistan #britishraj #partitionofindia #arunavasinha #mughalempire #alcoholism #prostitution #redlightdistricts #obscenity #pakteahouse #olddelhi #oldlahore #delhi #lahore #bankimpuraskar #grave #love #philosophy
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Mantography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEegambJn0
#thedarkknaik #bookreview #dozakhnama #rabisankarbal #mirzaghalib #saadathasanmanto #urdu #india #pakistan #britishraj #partitionofindia #arunavasinha #mughalempire #alcoholism #prostitution #redlightdistricts #obscenity #pakteahouse #olddelhi #oldlahore #delhi #lahore #bankimpuraskar #grave #love #philosophy
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Who The Real Poet Is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEegambJn0
#thedarkknaik #bookreview #dozakhnama #rabisankarbal #mirzaghalib #saadathasanmanto #urdu #india #pakistan #britishraj #partitionofindia #arunavasinha #mughalempire #alcoholism #prostitution #redlightdistricts #obscenity #pakteahouse #olddelhi #oldlahore #delhi #lahore #bankimpuraskar #grave #love #dozakhnama
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Ghalib & Manto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEegambJn0
#thedarkknaik #bookreview #dozakhnama #rabisankarbal #mirzaghalib #saadathasanmanto #urdu #india #pakistan #britishraj #partitionofindia #arunavasinha #mughalempire #alcoholism #prostitution #redlightdistricts #obscenity #pakteahouse #olddelhi #oldlahore #delhi #lahore #bankimpuraskar #grave #love #philosophy
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'Dozakhnama' is More Than a Conversation
#thedarkknaik #bookreview #dozakhnama #rabisankarbal #mirzaghalib #saadathasanmanto #urdu #india #pakistan #britishraj #partitionofindia #arunavasinha #mughalempire #alcoholism #prostitution #redlightdistricts #obscenity #pakteahouse #olddelhi #oldlahore #delhi #lahore #bankimpuraskar #grave #love #philosophy
