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. - (Hemingway, Ernest - Obscenity)

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. - (Gibbon, Edward - Obscenity)

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. - (Nietzsche, Friedrich - Obscenity)

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. - (Miller, Henry - Obscenity)

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. - (Marcuse, Herbert - Obscenity)

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. - (Russell, Bertrand - Obscenity)

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. - (Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Obscenity)

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. - (White, E(lwyn) B(rooks) - Obscenity)

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff. - (Lawrence, D. H. - Obscenity)

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art. - (Wilde, Oscar - Obscenity)