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Cops: Man Stocked Walmart Shelves With Photos of Himself in Drag

You can find almost anything on the shelves at Walmart -- sometimes even obscene photographs of a 44-year-old man in drag. Police in Fremont, Ohio, say Rodney Kunkel stocked the shelves at Walmart with graphic photographs showing himself in black nylons, heels and pink lingerie with his genitals exposed. Kunkel allegedly...

Charlie Crist to Get His Long-Awaited Pardon of Jim Morrison

(Dec. 8) -- He broke on through. Outgoing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has secured enough votes on the state's Executive Clemency Board to ensure that Jim Morrison, the former lead singer of seminal '60s rock group the Doors, will receive a posthumous pardon for an indecent exposure conviction. Crist secured the second...

Sexually Explicit Chants Land Yale Frat in Hot Water

(Oct. 19) -- It's enough to give "Animal House" a bad name. Members of Yale University's Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity find themselves facing possible disciplinary action after a group of pledges took part in an initiation activity in which they marched through campus chanting obscenities against women. On the night...

Will Failed DC Porn Case Dampen Prosecutors' Zeal?

WASHINGTON (July 29) -- In courtroom 18 in the sterile D.C. federal courthouse, Justice Department prosecutors earlier this month tried nailing a major producer of adult pornography on obscenity charges. The lawyers, part of the department's Obscenity Prosecution Task Force, spent four days presenting their case against...

Activists Urge Government Crackdown on Pornography

WASHINGTON (June 15) -- Anti-pornography activists gathered at the Capitol today to urge Congress to enforce existing laws governing obscenity and pornography. During a panel discussion sponsored by the Coalition for War on Illegal Pornography, a loose group of national organizations, speakers urged legislators and the...

Background on obscenity

An obscenity is any statement or act which strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time, is a profanity, or is otherwise taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting, or is especially inauspicious.

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