It seems to me that the arguments in the week's lectures are a point back to the thoughts presented at the beginning of the course. The question at hand is "What is obscenity?" The answer to me seems to be one that is unclear and subjective. Everyone has a different thought on what is obscence based on personal preferences, experiences, unbringing, mood of the day, etc etc. History shows us rules and laws and that same history just seems to prove that obscenity is defined in a different way by just about every person. It's definition ends up being an opinion over a fact.
I remember these arguments. They are the same things we learned at the beginning of the course when the question at hand was "What is pornography?" The answer was just about the same as the answer to "What is obscenity?"
So the question that I must then ask is, what is the difference? Obscenity and pornography seem in my mind to be basically the same thing; defined different by all, but placed in the same categories by each individual. If each porn to one person can be nothing to another, and obscenity to one person can be nothing to another, then where does the line separate each one? Couldn't one person consider one certain instance to be both pornographic and obscence? Is there really a difference at all between the two?
