![]() ![]() ![]() California, the Supreme Court affirmed that “words alone can be legally ‘obscene’ in the sense of being unprotected by the First Amendment.”Īrthur’s charges relate to five stories that contain fictional accounts of child sexual abuse, along with two line drawings and one cartoon-style drawing that were used as author profile pictures. However, fiction is not categorically exempt from obscenity law. The site contained over 25,000 stories by more than 2,200 authors.Īfter the failure of the obscenity prosecutions over Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer in 1964 and William S Burroughs’ Naked Lunch in 1965, there have been no further attempts to criminalize long form fiction in the United States. In a case seen as a test of whether text-only fiction can be considered legally obscene, Thomas Alan Arthur has been indicted on seven counts of obscenity-related crimes for hosting an erotic fiction archive named Mr Double. for Teachers, Parents, and School Officials.Resources for Authors of Banned and Challenged Books. ![]()
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