Decency

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Decency is an individual's adherence to social standards of appropriate speech and conduct.

Standards of decency vary greatly depending on the cultural context. Most nations have laws against indecency which regulate certain sexual acts, and restrict one's ability to display certain parts of the body in public (see indecent exposure).

[edit] See also

• Taste (sociology)
• Communications Decency Act
• Public indecency
• Indecent exposure
• Sodomy law
• Norm (sociology)
• Grotesque body

[edit] External links

Look up decency in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Public Decency, Seeming Child Porn and the Web
• First Amendment Library entry on U.S. Supreme Court Cases re Indecent Speech
• American Decency Association
• 2005, Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Cmte. Hearing on Decency in the Media archive at CSpan. [1]
• Entertainment Software Rating Board