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Opinion: ‘Sex and the Constitution’: Sexual expression before the moralists invented obscenity

By Eugene Volokh and Geoffrey Stone 

March 22, 2017

In ancient times, though, sexual explicitness in drama, poetry, art and sculpture was not considered offensive, shameful or harmful. Although Greece and Rome punished seditious, blasphemous and heretical expression, they did not punish expression because it was “obscene.”




In the Middle Ages, a wide range of sexually-explicit fables, or fabliaux, were shared with great joy in taverns, around campfires, and in castles.




The purpose of the fabliaux was to entertain, and the more ludicrous the sex, the greater the humor. The fabliaux freely employed profanity, pornography and scatology.




This indifference to sexually explicit expression reflected then-prevailing standards. The Elizabethans delighted in “coarse and robust humor.” In the latter part of Elizabeth’s reign, however, the Puritans began demanding a stricter set of sexual standards.


It is striking that were no prosecutions for obscenity during the entire colonial era. All of the colonies had laws against blasphemy and heresy, but sexual materials were left alone.

ギリシャの時代から神の冒涜は許されなかったが、エッチな話は別に問題にもされなかった。ただ、ピューリタンは厳格な性道徳を要求した、と。