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The Comstock laws regulate the traveling of obscene literature
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across state lines.
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Customs regulations regulated obscenity coming in to
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the United States.
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Why is obscenity important?
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Well, obscenity is largely recognized by legal scholars as not
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being protected by the Fourteenth Amendment;
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it is not protected speech.
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So, that's why it was important for someone
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who wanted to keep Ulysses
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out of American hands to call it obscene.
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Now, it's very interesting to read what Woolsey says about Ulysses.