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Offensiveness in the Williams Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Brian Smart
Brian Smart
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University of Keele
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Philosophy , Volume 59 , Issue 230 , October 1984, pp. 516 - 522
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1984

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1 Cmnd 7772: Chairman, Bernard, Williams (HMSO, November 1979).Google Scholar

2 Ibid. 160.

3 The exception is the prohibition of live performances involving actual sexual activity. But even here the Committee refers to ‘dangers of public order problems’ (ibid., 139).

4 Ibid. 61–95.

5 See Section 4 of the Act.

6 Report, 126, 134.

7 Ibid. 12–13.

8 Ibid. 9, 102.

9 Ibid. 102. For scepticism about this see Anthony, Skillen, ‘Offences Ranked: The Williams Report on Obscenity’, Philosophy 57 (1982), 237–245.Google Scholar

10 Ibid. 122.

11 Ibid. 123.

12 Ibid. 97.

13 We are not to forget the other recommendations for prohibition.

14 Ibid. 97

15 Ibid. 123.

16 Ibid. 124.

17 Ibid. 124.

18 Ibid. 127.

19 Ibid. 56.

20 Ronald, Dworkin, ‘Is There a Right to Pornography?’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies I (1981), 199.Google Scholar

21 Report, 55.