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Pornography and Free Speech | Nadine Strossen and Holly Lawford-Smith
Brain in a Vat
Puritan Roots and Sex in American Law
The separate treatment of sex in American culture and law dates back to Puritan ancestors from England who sought more restrictions on sexual expression. The American law carves out an obscenity exception for sexually oriented expression, which is the only content-based exception to free speech tolerated by the Supreme Court. Starting in the mid-20th century, the Supreme Court dismantled all former exceptions to free speech, except for sexually oriented content.
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