Sex (film) wrote: "Six years before Mae West dared to call her play 'Sex', Thomas Ince produced and Fred Niblo directed a 1920 film called 'Sex', starring pioneering screen vamp Louise Glaum as a New York cabaret star, the mistress of a married man. What gives the film its edge is that in truth she is simply a blunt, honest woman who doesn't realize her own vulnerability." The film's title and subject matter were the subject of controversy in some locations. Playing off of the film's provocative title, newspaper advertising urged readers to "SEE SEX SEE SEX SEE SEX". The Pennsylvania State
Obscene Publications Act 1857 of a suspect work to be judged independently of context. If any portion of a work was deemed obscene, the entire work could be outlawed. This interpretation was clearly a major change from Campbell's opinion only ten years before – the test now being the effect on someone open to corruption who obtained a copy, not whether the material was "intended" to corrupt or offend. Cockburn's declaration remained in force for several decades, and most of the high-profile seizures under the Act relied on this interpretation. The Obscene Publications Act 1959 significantly reformed the law related to obscenity, coming into