Canada thus became the first country to define obscenity as what hurts women.

Indeed, one expert has defined obscenity in terms of whether or not writings or pictures under scrutiny bypass the intellect.

And defining obscenity is precisely the difficulty.

The American quest to define, criminalize and punish obscenity had begun.

With "animal integrity," we wind up in the same place the Supreme Court found itself defining "obscenity."

The law defined obscenity and separated it from serious works of art.

However, the legislation did not define "obscenity" and left it to the courts to determine what is and what isn't prescribed.

It was a masterpiece because it actually defined obscenity.

The Act did not, however, define obscenity.

The 1957 Supreme Court decision defined obscenity in order to implement censorship.