public decency
Appropriate public behavior
Public decency refers to standards of behavior, dress, and conduct that a community considers acceptable in shared spaces.
Laws against offenses to public decency typically prohibit acts like indecent exposure, public urination, or lewd behavior that would shock or offend ordinary people.
The concept varies across cultures and eras—what violates public decency in one place may be unremarkable in another.
He was arrested for an offense against public decency.
- obscenity lawsLegal restrictions on offensive expression
- modestyAbsence of vanity
- proprietyCorrectness of conduct
- decorumFitting social conduct
- good tasteSense of quality
indecent act · dress codes · naturism · wardrobe malfunction · etiquette · censorship · civility · nudity · social conformity · social norms · breach of peace · appropriateness · dignity · moral panic · respectability · discretion · community standards · family values
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, book banning, book bans
- public orderriot, breach of peace, disorderly conduct, unlawful assembly, civil unrest
- sexual ethicssexual morality, sexual ethics, chastity, adultery, human sexuality
- vice lawssodomy laws, obscenity laws, blue laws, adultery laws, indecency laws
- sex lawsodomy laws, age of consent, consent laws, same-sex marriage, marriage equality
- customscustoms, customs clearance, wedding custom, customs declaration, burial custom
public decencypublic indecency
Offensive conduct in view
indecent exposure · public lewdness · indecency · obscenity · lewdness
public decencypublic scandal
Notorious shameful incident
public disorder · moral turpitude · public outrage · anarchy · civil disorder