History Quote by Gay Talese

What is obscenity? And to whom?

— Allen Ginsberg

“Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.”

— Betty Smith

“The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole and scorn…

— Michael Salter

Sometimes there was a serious article on a hot topic, and I especially remember one by a bishop headed "Is Nudity Salacious?" The bishop…

— Robertson Davies

The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden…

— Nagisa Oshima

Obscenity is the language of the inarticulate.

— Anonymous

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Some writers have even argued that it may be possible to wean sex offenders away from their criminal activities through the use of pornography…

— Richard Dunphy

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

— Christopher Hitchens

“The concept of “obscenity” is tested when we dare to look at something that we desire to see but have forbidden ourselves to look…

— Nagisa Oshima

Whether my acting was obscene, or whether it was distasteful, well, Judge Rehnquist, who just recently passed away couldn't define pornography. His comment on…

— Harry Reems