Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.