obscenity

In 2015, the village proposed an obscenity law regarding merchandise in store windows.

Maybe, he said, if Massry took a photo of people having sex and put it on a shirt, that might violate obscenity laws, “but curse words won’t do it.”

She spoke openly about the illness, the drugs she is taking, and her mortality, at times punctuating her comments with an obscenity.

The opening episodes of “Grotesquerie” do little to reveal the moral bubbling beneath the obscenity.

Their deaths have already become part of a new call for a federal strategy to block access to abortion pills, whether through policy changes at the Food and Drug Administration or through the use of the Comstock Act, a 19th-century obscenity law, in a future Republican administration.