Can Mere Language (Without Pictures) Be Obscene?

An American court will decide. It is apparently an unsettled legal question. In any case, bluenose Pennsylvania prosecutor Mary Beth Buchanan, employing the awesome power of the federal government, has indicted dangerous porno queen Karen Fletcher, “a 56-year-old recluse living on disability payments . . .  for writings distributed on the Internet to about two dozen subscribers.” There is certainly an obscenity here, but it is not the writings of Karen Fletcher.

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