antismut

(ˌæntɪˈsmʌt)

adj

opposed to or acting to prevent the circulation of obscene material

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In Massachusetts, the commonwealth passed a law making it a felony to possess obscene materials and set up an antismut unit.

Newton Arvin and the Police: Contexts for The Scarlet Professor

1969; Lloyd Holbeck, "100 Picket Adult Center After Antismut Meeting," CA, 3 Oct.

Black and white and banned all over: race, censorship and obscenity in postwar Memphis

Arvin, a respected scholar of Melville and Hawthorne, was ruined in 1960 when an "antismut" campaign spurred his arrest for possession of the sort of homoerotic photographs that today are used to sell pricey ready-to-wear from Abercrombie & Fitch.

The Truman show: with the first collection of his letters, a complete volume of his short stories, and a fresh edition of his first novel, Truman Capote is hot again

Before Charles Keating helped precipitate the S&L crisis, his main claim to fame was as an antismut crusader.

Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius

His career, along with the forces that brought him to power and those his antismut campaigns unleashed, suggests that there's far more to fear in the N.E.A.