"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
— Obscenity

January 1, 1970

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Cf. Russell (1928), Sceptical Essays, «It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate".»