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Supreme Court To Hear Animal Sex Fetish Case; "Crush Videos," Dogfighting Footage May Be Treated Like Child Porn

Newsweek | Krista Gesaman | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ruling, Animal Cruelty, Supreme Court, Pets, U.S. v. Stevens, Child Pornography, Kittens, Free Speech, Crush Videos, Pornography, Mice, Animal-Torture, Animal Sex Fetish, Fetish, Dogfighting, Circuit Court, Obscenity, Kiddie Porn, Politics News

Kittens, brutality, fetish videos, and dogfighting--these aren't the elements of a twisted cable-television show; they're just some of the factors in ...

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Media Drops the F-Bomb Into Its Headlines

Danny Groner | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Television, Newspapers, Video, Language, Entertainment, Ernie Anastos, Tv, Online Video, Snl, Saturday Night Live, F-Bomb, Media, Obscenity, Jenny Slate, Media News
Danny Groner

By the looks of it, the "F-Bomb" has been lurking for some time now, but it took the Slate incident on SNL to help propel it further. Call me old-fashioned, but what ever happened to the old, reliable, and charged F-Word?

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Porn Case Prosecution Signals Shift From Aggressive Bush

Politico | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Montana, Pornagraphy, Torture Portal, Justice Department, Obama Administration, Barry Goldman, New Jersey, Porn, Obscenity, Politics News

President Barack Obama's Justice Department has quietly agreed to move a pornography prosecution out of socially conservative Montana to more urbane N...

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Allen Ginsberg Is Coming To The Big Screen

John Lundberg | Posted 04.29.2009 | Living

Read More: The Poetic Life, Howl, Howl Poem, Obscenity Protests, Howl Movie, Allen Ginsberg, James Franco, Obscenity, Living News
John Lundberg

Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" is coming to theaters. And if that makes you want to hide your children, hold off for a moment. The movie isn't an incarnat...

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What Do Torture and Porn Have in Common? More Than You Might Think.

Susannah Breslin | Posted 02.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Susannah Breslin, Pornography, Video Games, Obscenity, Porn, Sex, Abu Ghraib, Wired Magazine, Torture, Wired, Media News
Susannah Breslin

While many Americans have seen photos from Abu Ghraib, many have turned a blind-eye to their country's position on torture. Video games encourage us to engage deeply with complicated questions, torture among them.

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The Question Carlin Left Behind: What is Obscenity?

Danny Schechter | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: George Carlin, Ugly George, Obscenity, Aclu, Fcc, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin Seven Words, Censorship, Standards and Practices, Entertainment News
Danny Schechter

Comic social commentators like George Carlin, Lenny Bruce and mavericks like New York's Ugly George have been uncturing the pervasive hypocrisy on the issue of obscenity laws.

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