Why is BLUE?

Question

Why people call something obscene "BLUE"??

Answer 1

When film making was young, the first pornography films (silent of course) were processed with chemicals that gave the black and white celluloid film a blue tint. Thus the name "Blue Movies".

Any other reference to obscene acts may date back to the Blue Laws that were established in the 17th century by Puritan leaders of the Commonwealth of Connecticut, the original blue laws were draconian even by the strict standards of the day. Skipping church or playing any sort of game got you fined, and if you burgled your neighbor's house on Sunday, they cut your ear off.

The term "blue laws" seems to have been invented by Reverend Samuel Peters, a pro-British American clergyman whose "General History of Connecticut," published in 1781, set out to paint the colonists as religious fanatics. Although popular legend maintains that the term "blue laws" arose because the laws themselves were printed on blue paper, Peters himself explained that by "blue" he meant "bloody," i.e., enforced by whipping, maiming and death.

Ironically, there's no evidence that the colonists themselves used the term "blue laws," which makes sense -- they'd probably have been whipped if they had.

What we do know is that the word began to be applied to matters obscene in the 1820s. (There’s an entry for it in The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John MacTaggart of 1824: “Thread o’ Blue, any little smutty touch in song-singing, chatting, or piece of writing”).

Answer 2

Because:

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Answer 3

Another explanation for "blue movies" is that striptease acts may have once used blue spotlights

Answer 4

its the first colour that pops into your head