No one outside the District Attorney's circles, as far as we could discover, considered it obscene-the mere fact of its having prostitution for its theme not constituting, in an intelligent mind, obscenity.
Could someone with access to your private account consider its contents obscene?
Even Revolution - In 1855, Walt Whitman's famous poetry, "Leaves Of Grass" was considered obscene by many critics, but Ralph Waldo Emerson considered it a work of genius and today that's the common opinion.
The new rules lay out the circumstances under which the CPS considers it appropriate to prosecute people for sending messages that "may be considered grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or false", conditions that sound awfully subjective.
The site does, however, filter what it considers obscene sounds from its index.
British law is hazy on the question of obscenity; following a landmark judicial ruling, pornographic material is considered "obscene" if it has "a tendency to deprave and corrupt" its audience.
At Williams College, in Williamstown, Mass., where gay students traditionally chalk twice a year, the administration erased chalkings that it considered obscene last spring.
The NATO visitors watched an ersatz eighteenth-century dance (complete with powdered wigs and simulated copulation) that might have been considered obscene had it not been so amusing.
Unexpectedly he had a respectful admiration for Schoenberg, whose earliest masterpiece, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night, 1899), dates from the same time as Tosca and has a similarly mawkish story behind it, considered obscene at the time: two lovers are torn apart by the realisation that she is expecting a child by another man.
The judge in the case, Clayton Horn, ultimately ruled that Ginsberg's poem should not be considered obscene, as it had "redeeming social importance".
