"Do you consider yourself the keeper of public morals?"
The concern of the prosecution in 1960 was with the corruption of public morals.
These works were outside of the control of colonial government and considered harmful to public morals.
In our time we have seen a shocking decline in both public and private morals.
But women performing kabuki was believed to corrupt public morals.
She was the unofficial news spreader and guardian of public morals.
The woman in black is a government employee paid to police public morals.
Any composer who expects his work to upgrade the public morals is on the wrong track.
The court declared the couple's three children illegitimate, and their union "against public morals".