Decency
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decency is NOT "Порядочность", see "Integrity" (which is close to "Порядочность"
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'''Decency''' is conformity to [[Society|sociocultural]] standards of conduct and speech.
Standards of decency vary greatly depending on the cultural context. Most nations have [[law]]s against indecency which regulate certain sexual acts, and restrict one's ability to display certain parts of the body in public (see ''[[indecent exposure]]'').
==Definitions of ''indecency'' in England and Wales==
The terms ''indecency'' and ''indecent'' have wide application in [[English law]], but are not defined in any [[legislation]]. Historically, the words' dictionary definitions (as opposed to legal definitions) helped to resolve legal disputes concerning the scope or application of the terms.
*In '''R v Stanley''' ([[1965]]), Lord Parker attempted to differentiate ''indecency'' from ''obscenity'':
<blockquote>"The words ''indecent'' or ''obscene'' convey one idea: namely, offending against the recognised standards of propriety—indecent being at the lower end of the scale and obscene at the upper end of the scale."</blockquote>
*In '''Knuller v DPP''', Lord Reid said that indecency includes "anything which an ordinary decent man or woman would find to be shocking, disgusting, or revolting."
*In '''R v Graham-Kerr''' ([[1988]]), Stocker L. J. said that the appropriate test in the case of the [[Protection of Children Act 1978]] was the application of the "recognised standards of propriety" stated in '''R v Stamford ''' ([[1972]]).
[[Obscenity]] is defined in the [[Obscene Publications Act]].
==See also==
*[[Taste (sociology)]]
*[[Communications Decency Act]]
*[[Public indecency]]
*[[Indecent exposure]]
*[[Norm (sociology)]]
*[[Grotesque body]]
==External links==
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* [http://www.publicdecency.net Public Decency, Seeming Child Porn and the Web]
*[http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/faclibrary/libraryexpression.aspx?topic=indecent_speech First Amendment Library entry on U.S. Supreme Court Cases re Indecent Speech]
*[http://www.americandecency.org/indecency.htm American Decency Association]
* '''2005, Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Cmte. Hearing on Decency in the Media''' archive at CSpan. [http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=190192705]
*[http://www.esrb.org/ESBR Entertainment Software Rating Board]
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