Obscenity differs across all walks of life, and means something different to everyone. While the legal definition tries to lay a baseline definition down, it is not all encompassing. The legal definition tries to set a sort of standard to measure what is obscene and what is not. Trying to whittle the definition of obscenity down to something particular is quite a daunting task.
If you look at this country in particular, the defintion of obscenity can differ based on whose in office and who is the leading majority. For example, the FCC has suddenly decided to crack down on obscenity and ladies and gentleman be advised to watch out. Who knows what will be labeled as obscene next! While I don't understand how shows that depict situations that do happen in real life (teen sex) will be slapped with an obscenity label and given outrageous fines, but ahhh so says the moral majority. How is it that a call for assasination of a world leader that is against the moral majority is able to slide under the offensive filter? (A 700 Club host called for the assasination of a world leader in the name of the moral majority on air and was asked to apologize) I suppose when one is a puppet of the morality police then certain actions can be given a blind eye to. There is a very skewed census of obscenity when looking across the spectrum of opinion. I personally don't find an exposed nipple offensive, while others don't find a call for someone's life offensive. It's all in what beliefs you hold I suppose.
