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    Since 1857, a series of obscenity laws known as the Obscene Publications Acts have governed what can be published in England and Wales. The classic definition...
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    The Obscene Publications Act 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 66) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament, which significantly reformed the law...
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    The Obscene Publications Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 83), also known as Lord Campbell's Act or Campbell's Act, was a piece of legislation in the United...
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  • The National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Acts (NCROPA) was an anti-censorship campaigning organisation whose goal was the reform...
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    Obscene Publications Act 1964 (c. 74) (OPA) is a short piece of English legislation providing minor additional provisions in addition to the Obscene Publications...
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  • Obscenity (redirect from Obscene)
    behavior Legal status of Internet pornography Obscene libel Obscene phone call Obscene Publications Acts Profanity Public morality Rudeness Seven dirty...
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  • magistrates acquitted her and Sullivan following prosecution under the Obscene Publications Acts. She had a small part in Sullivan's 1977 softcore sex comedy Come...
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  • the UK's obscenity laws, such as the Obscene Publications Act 1959, remained strict by European standards. Other acts of parliament such as the Civic Government...
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    to the film board. Urination during sex is considered obscene under the Obscene Publications Acts. The Board later stated that it does not take any view...
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  • breasts or genitals. The definition of "obscene" is not the same as that used in the Obscene Publications Acts, which requires that an image "deprave and...
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  • United Kingdom in the late 1980s. The investigation, led by the Obscene Publications Squad of the Metropolitan Police, began in 1987 and ran for three...
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  • list of topics related to pornography in the United Kingdom. Obscene Publications Acts Video Recordings Act 1984 Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and...
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  • committee member of the National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Acts. Born as Pamela J. Cowan, and originally from Leeds, before turning...
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  • The Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications is a multilateral anti-pornography treaty that was initially negotiated and...
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  • could be imagined, were Flossie and The Autobiography of a Flea. Obscene Publications Acts Pornotopia Carrington 1902, p. 140. Larsson 2007, p. 105. Thomas...
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  • prosecution under the Obscene Publications Acts. Thorn-EMI had unwittingly released a "video nasty", a term used to describe films judged as obscene and too violent...
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  • became one of 39 titles to be successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Acts in 1984.[citation needed] In 2016, the UK company "88 films" conducted...
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  • law in England and Wales is currently governed by the various Obscene Publications Acts, and Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008...
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  • Section 294 of the Indian Penal Code lays down the punishment for obscene acts or words in public. The other section of Indian Penal code which deal with...
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  • Wales explained why he would not prosecute the book under the Obscene Publications Acts: "Whilst there is much in this most tedious and lengthy book which...
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  • Censorship of Publications Acts of 1929, 1946 and 1967. The Board has the authority to prohibit any book or periodical that they find to be obscene. This makes...
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  • Repeal of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act; this was later amended to National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Acts (NCROPA). NCROPA...
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  • Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (category United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 2008)
    breasts or genitals. The definition of "obscene" is not the same as that used in the Obscene Publications Acts, which requires that an image "deprave and...
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  • Philippines considers certain acts to be obscene or indecent and these are prohibited as immoral doctrines, obscene publications, indecent shows, or other...
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  • Recordings Act 1984, the Obscene Publications Act 1959, and the Obscene Publications Act 1964, with current interpretation of such acts being incorporated into...
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  • pornography, including written material, is also restricted by the Obscene Publications Acts. Censorship in the United Kingdom Pornography in the United Kingdom...
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  • Censorship of Publications Board was established under the Censorship of Publications Act 1929, and the scope of its work was expanded by two further acts in 1946...
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    Criminally obscene content hosted in the UK, or anywhere in the world if uploaded by someone in the UK (under the Obscene Publications Acts); However,...
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    This is a list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in 1964. Acts passed since 1963 are cited by calendar year, as opposed to the convention...
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  • author, publisher, and printer from being prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Acts. He published the first sexual instruction book "Your Erotic Fantasies...
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