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Obscene Publications Acts
Act of Parliament
Obscene Publications Acts
Territorial extent England and Wales
Status: Unknown
Text of the Obscene Publications Acts as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

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 of criminal obscenity is if it "tends to deprave and corrupt," stated in 1868 by Lord Justice Cockburn, in Regina v. Hicklin, now known as the Hicklin test.

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Obscene Publications Act 1964

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Adult film industry regulations

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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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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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Female ejaculation

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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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Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications

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Operation Spanner

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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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Section 294 of the Indian Penal Code

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Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008

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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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The Naked and the Dead

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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 in the United Kingdom

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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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Pamela Manson

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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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Internet Watch Foundation

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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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Neville Armstrong

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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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R v Peacock

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v Peacock was an English Crown Court case that was a test of the Obscene Publications Act 1959. In December 2009, the defendant, a male escort named Michael...

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