Below is a speech I wrote and presented in a Communications class in college at UNCW circa 1990. I got an “A”!!!
The boundaries between art and obscenity are tough to distinguish. The role of the artists in society is hard to define. Even more difficult is deciding who, in a multicultural society has the right to set those boundaries. It is not an easy question, and doesn’t have a easy answer. Plato and Aristotle argued over whether the arts served as an outlet of social evil feelings or served to emphasize them and were bad. (more…)