Obscenity controversies

Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde.

Naked Lunch (sometimes The Naked Lunch) is a novel by American writer William S.

Excel Saga (Japanese: エクセル♥サーガ Hepburn: Ekuseru Sāga) is a manga series written and illustrated by Rikdo Koshi.

4chan is an English-language imageboard website.

The permissibility of depictions of Muhammad in Islam has been a contentious issue.

Encyclopedia Dramatica (often abbreviated ED and æ) is a satirical website, consisting of a wiki that uses MediaWiki software, and a forum based on XenForo forums software.

Jock Sturges (born 1947, New York) is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families.

2 Girls 1 Cup is the unofficial nickname of the trailer for Hungry Bitches, a 2007 Brazilian scat-fetish pornographic film produced by MFX Media.

Lolicon (ロリコン), also romanised as lolikon or rorikon, is Japanese discourse or media focusing on the attraction to young or prepubescent girls.

Matinée de Septembre (English: September Morn) is a controversial oil painting on canvas completed in 1911 by the French artist Paul Émile Chabas.

Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950) is an American photographer and artist who has become famous through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, notably his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine.

Shotacon (ショタコン shotakon), short for Shōtarō complex (正太郎コンプレックス shōtarō konpurekkusu), is Japanese slang describing an attraction to young boys and is shota in manga.

Bernard John Manning (13 August 1930 – 18 June 2007) was an English comedian and nightclub owner.

(Main articles: Pornography and Pornographic film) Pornography in the United States of America has existed since the country's origins and has become more readily accessible in the 21st century.

The Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA) is an Internet-trolling organization.

Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is a Baptist church which is known for its hate speech, especially against LGBT people (homophobia), Catholics (anti-Catholicism), Orthodox Christians (anti-Orthodoxy), Muslims (Islamophobia), Jews (anti-Judaism/religious antisemitism), American soldiers and politicians.

"Tree" was a controversial 24-metre (79 ft) high inflatable sculpture by the artist Paul McCarthy that was briefly installed in the Place Vendôme in Paris in October 2014 as part of a FIAC exhibition called "Hors les murs".

Goregrish.com is a shock site website which presents its viewers with graphic uncensored images and video of accident victims, drug overdoses, suicides, murders, executions and war crimes.

Tay was an artificial intelligence chatterbot released by Microsoft Corporation on March 23, 2016.

Bestgore.com is a Canadian shock site owned by Mark Marek, which provides highly violent real-life news, photos and videos, with authored opinion and user comments.

Robert Ciro Gigante, known as Bob Grant (March 14, 1929 – December 31, 2013), was an American radio host.

Fucking Machines (also known as fuckingmachines.com and fuckingmachines) is a pornographic website founded in 2000 that features video and photographs of women engaged in autoerotic sexual stimulation with penetrative sex-machines and sex toys.

Fucking Hell is a German Pilsner or pale lager.

Alvin Tan (Chinese: 陈杰毅; pinyin: Chén Jiéyì; born c. 1988) is a Malaysian blogger and pornographic film director and performer.

Daryl Gates (born Darrel Francis Gates; August 30, 1926 – April 16, 2010) was the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1978 to 1992.

(This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Guillén and the second or maternal family name is Barrios.) Oswaldo José "Ozzie" Guillén Barrios (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʎen]; born January 20, 1964) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball player and manager.

Newgrounds is an American entertainment and social media website and company.

The Janoskians (Just Another Name Of Silly Kids In Another Nation Skip) are a YouTube comedy group originally from Melbourne, Australia, who are now based in Los Angeles.

Pussy is a carbonated energy drink produced by Pussy Drinks Ltd in the UK.

Dem. Theodorescu (most common rendition of Demetru Theodorescu or Teodorescu, first name also Mitică; October 26, 1888 – April 11, 1946) was a Romanian journalist, humorist, and critic, remembered for his social-themed novels but also for his controversial political stances.

Grigori Aleksandrovich Galitsin (Russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Гали́цын, Sci: Grigorij Aleksandrovič Galicyn; also known as A. Obolenski) (born 1957 in Rozdilna, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian former erotic photographer.

("Goatse" redirects here. For the computer hacker group, see Goatse Security.)(Not to be confused with Mario Götze.) goatse.

Roy "Chubby" Brown (born Roy Vasey; 3 February 1945) is an English stand-up comedian, famous for his sarcastic blue humour.

Josephine Chuen-juei Ho(Chinese: 何春蕤; pinyin: Hé Chūnruí; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hô Chhun-jôe) (born 16 June 1951) is the chair of the English department ofNational Central University, Taiwan, and coordinator of itsCenter For the Study of Sexualities.

Megumi Igarashi (Japanese: 五十嵐恵), who uses the pseudonym Rokudenashiko (Japanese: ろくでなし子 or 碌でなし子 rokudenashi ["reprobate", "bastard", "good-for-nothing", "ne'er-do-well"] + diminutive feminine suffix -ko [usually translated as "girl" or "little"]), is a Japanese sculptor and manga artist who has received public attention for her work featuring female genitalia.

The social news site Reddit has occasionally been the topic of controversy due to the presence of communities on the site (known as subreddits) devoted to explicit material.

8chan, also called Infinitechan, is an English-language imageboard website composed of user-created boards.

Hideharu Egashira (江頭 秀晴 Egashira Hideharu, born July 1, 1965, in Chiyoda, Saga), better known by his stage name Egashira 2:50 (江頭2:50 Egashira Nijigojuppun), is a Japanese comedian.

Rotten.com is a shock site with the slogan "An archive of disturbing illustration".

French Connection (also branded as FCUK) is a UK-based global retailer and wholesaler of fashion clothing, accessories and homeware.

John Loy Rocker (born October 17, 1974) is a retired American Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for the Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians, the Texas Rangers, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as well as the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

Donald Fraser Gould McGill (28 January 1875 – 13 October 1962) was an English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with a whole genre of saucy seaside postcards that were sold mostly in small shops in British coastal towns.

(This article is about the person. For the show, see Bubba the Love Sponge Show.) Bubba the Love Sponge Clem (born Todd Alan Clem, April 23, 1966) is the host of The Bubba the Love Sponge Show.