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Originally Posted by tjr
Reminds me of famous quote from a censor, "I can't tell you what pornography is but I know it when I see it!"
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It's from Justice Stewart's concurring opinion in the landmark obscenity case
Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), which was about whether the film
The Lovers was obscene under US law:
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.