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An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time.〔(Merriam-Webster Online ), accessed September 2010.〕 It is derived from the Latin ''obscaena'' (offstage) a cognate of the Ancient Greek root ''skene'', because some potentially offensive content, such as murder or sex, was depicted offstage in classical drama. The word can be used to indicate a strong moral repugnance, in expressions such as "obscene profits" or "the obscenity of war". ==United States obscenity law== (詳細はUnited States of America, issues of obscenity raise issues of limitations on the freedom of speech and of the press, which are otherwise protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Federal obscenity law in the U.S. is unusual in that there is no uniform national standard. Former Justice Potter Stewart of the Supreme Court of the United States, in attempting to classify what material constituted exactly "what is obscene," famously wrote, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced ... ()ut I know it when I see it...."〔''Jacobellis v. Ohio'', 378 U.S. 184, 197 (1964).〕 In the United States, the 1973 ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in ''Miller v. California'' established a three-tiered test to determine what was obscene—and thus not protected, versus what was merely erotic and thus protected by the First Amendment. Delivering the opinion of the court, Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote: :''The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.〔''Miller v. California'', 413 U.S. 15, 24 (1972).〕'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Obscenity」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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