When I looked up obscenity on-line I got "prurient, patently offensive and lacking in significant literary, artistic or political value. I think everyone has different views on obscenity. The Hicklin rule states "it is obscene if it has a tendency to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands it might fall." I think that is a pretty good saying of obscenity. If you your mind is open and thinks of things in such ways then you are going to think of more things as obscene than other people might. Anthony Comstock is well known for destroying thousands of books and pictures that had obscene images as well as rubber articles, playing cards and boxes of aphrodisiacs. Comstock formed the New York SSV. The SSV’s main goal was stop the corruption of youth within the city of New York by keeping obscene materials out of the hands of everyone, especially children. The SSV felt that children needed to be protected from obscenity because, as Anthony Comstock put it, “from infancy to maturity, the pathway of the child is beset with peculiar temptations to do evil.” The idea was to remove temptations from within the child’s grasp while they were maturing, so they would grow up to be proper. I think he was doing the right thing by taking all these steps to protect the children. I feel as children should not be exposed to obscenity at a young age.