18 U.S.C. § 1461 : US Code - Section 1461: Mailing obscene or crime-inciting matter

Search 18 U.S.C. § 1461 : US Code - Section 1461: Mailing obscene or crime-inciting matter

Every obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile
article, matter, thing, device, or substance; and -
Every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for
producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use; and
Every article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing
which is advertised or described in a manner calculated to lead
another to use or apply it for producing abortion, or for any
indecent or immoral purpose; and
Every written or printed card, letter, circular, book, pamphlet,
advertisement, or notice of any kind giving information, directly
or indirectly, where, or how, or from whom, or by what means any of
such mentioned matters, articles, or things may be obtained or
made, or where or by whom any act or operation of any kind for the
procuring or producing of abortion will be done or performed, or
how or by what means abortion may be produced, whether sealed or
unsealed; and
Every paper, writing, advertisement, or representation that any
article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing may, or
can, be used or applied for producing abortion, or for any indecent
or immoral purpose; and
Every description calculated to induce or incite a person to so
use or apply any such article, instrument, substance, drug,
medicine, or thing -
Is declared to be nonmailable matter and shall not be conveyed in
the mails or delivered from any post office or by any letter
carrier.
Whoever knowingly uses the mails for the mailing, carriage in the
mails, or delivery of anything declared by this section or section
3001(e) of title 39 to be nonmailable, or knowingly causes to be
delivered by mail according to the direction thereon, or at the
place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom
it is addressed, or knowingly takes any such thing from the mails
for the purpose of circulating or disposing thereof, or of aiding
in the circulation or disposition thereof, shall be fined under
this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, for the
first such offense, and shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than ten years, or both, for each such offense
thereafter.
The term "indecent", as used in this section includes matter of a
character tending to incite arson, murder, or assassination.