Some prosecutors have brought obscenity or pornography charges against teenagers who engage in so-called sexting, but civil libertarians argue that the practice is protected speech.
This is not his first time bringing an obscenity case to the Kansas court system.
Within the staid culture of the 1950s, Kerouac's epic tale of free-for-all road tripping across America with socially liberated friends left many publishers doubtful that the book would bring anything other than obscenity charges.
The Obama administration hasn't brought a new obscenity case since taking office in 2009, and during the Bush administration, Trueman acknowledges, obscenity prosecutions were at relatively low levels.
He lost patience with it once computers were brought in and obscenity cluttered the lyric line.
Sarah Silverman, though, brings some cheerful obscenity as a raunchy yet coy saloon belle.
And obscenity brought out the stylist in him; it helped him form his mature, post-naturalist voice.
