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Lecherous

Like a lecher addicted to lewdness excessively lustful used mostly of men...

Concupiscent

Having sexual lust libidinous lustful lecherous salacious...

Lecher

A man given to lewdness one addicted in an excessive degree to the indulgence of sexual desire or to illicit sexual relations with women also called letch and lech...

lecherousness

an inclination to excessive indulgence in sexual activity habitually developing a strong sexual arousal...

Salacious

Having a propensity to venery lustful lecherous...

Salacity

Strong propensity to venery lust lecherousness...

Obscene, means if there be no abstract definition ........ Should not the word 'obscene' be allowed to indicate the present critical point in the compromise between candor and shame at which the community may have arrived here and now, United States v. Kennerley, 209 F 119 (121) (S.D.N.Y. 1913).Obscene, the Indian Penal Code borrowed the word from the English Statute. The Common law offence of obscenity was established in England three hundred years ago when Sir Charles Sedley exposed his person to the public gaze on the balcony of a tavern. Obscenity in books, however, was punishable only before the spiritual courts because it was so held down to 1708 in which year Queen v. Read, 11 Mod 205 QB, was decided, In 1727 in the case against one Curl it was ruled for the first time that it was a Common Law offence, Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1965 SC 881 (887): (1965) 1 SCR 65. (Indian Penal Code, s. 292)The concept of obscenity would differ from country to country dependin...

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