http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ObscenityCharge Posts tagged with 'ObscenityCharge' at MetaFilter. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:49:31 -0800 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:49:31 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/68783/Poster%2DPolice On Saturday police in Virginia Beach (VA) <a href="http://hamptonroads.com/node/452689">seized two promotional posters</a> from an Abercrombie &amp; Fitch store and have cited the manager of the store with an obscenity charge. "One [of the posters] <a href="http://hamptonroads.com/files/images/32741.jpg">shows a group of shirtless male models</a> and one has his jeans low enough to show a part of his buttocks." "The other image is of a woman who is topless and whose 'breast is displayed with her hand covering just the nipple portion.'" Police spokesman <a href="http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-now-adsremoved-0202,0,762323.story">Adam Bernstein</a>: "An officer went and looked at them, and thought himself that they were pretty racy." The obscenity charge was issued under City Code Section 22.31 which makes it a crime to display "<a href="http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_local_020208_abercrombie_&_fitch.848466e5.html?npc">obscene materials in a business that is open to juveniles</a>." In 2003, the<a href="http://www.abercrombie.com/anf/index.html"> company</a> halted publication of its 7-year-old A&amp;F Quarterly catalog after the threat of a boycott led by by the <a href="http://www.nationalcoalition.org/">National Coalition for the Protection of Children &amp; Families </a>regarding sexually suggestive photographs by award-winning photographer <a href="http://www.bruceweber.com/">Bruce Weber</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.68783 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:49:31 -0800 AbercrombieFitch AF ObscenityCharge VirginiaBeach ericb