Obscenity

An obscenity is any statement or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time. Satirizing the ruler may be obscene, offending the god(s) may ve obscene.

The United States, a litigious country (it was born litigious), has led the world in specifying specifically what obscenity is (at least in the United States).. According to the famous 1957 Roth decision