A report on Obscenity and Stanley v. Georgia

Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 (1969), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that helped to establish an implied "right to privacy" in U.S. law in the form of mere possession of obscene materials.

Another difference between U.S. constitutional law concerning obscenity and that governing child pornography is that the Supreme Court ruled in Stanley v. Georgia,, that possession of obscene material could not be criminalized, while in Osborne v. Ohio, , the high court ruled that possession of child pornography could be criminalized.