What is different about obscenity is that the test requires a jury to pronounce a work wholly unfit for publication in a civilised society, which implies an immoral influence of a strikingly serious kind.

At sentencing, Scheindlin specifically named Diane Passage as an immoral influence on Starr.

However, the law does regulate the sale, publishing, or exhibiting of obscene material, defined as anything that could deprive or corrupt those open to immoral influences.

Rustin was attacked as a "pervert" or "immoral influence" by political opponents from segregationists to Black power militants, and from the 1950s through the 1970s.

The Puritans of the following century viewed Ovid as pagan, thus as an immoral influence.

I was protecting my young patrons from drugs and other immoral influences.

The Hicklin test defined material as obscene if it tended "to deprave or corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall."

On the other hand he didn't want Norfolk or anyone else to claim the boy had come under an immoral influence.

By that time, masquerades were equally reputed for their great popularity and immoral influences.

The court held that all material tending "to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences" was obscene, regardless of its artistic or literary merit.