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Shia Muslim Bandari women from southern Iran wearing embroidered Boregeh masks.

The Iranian American scientist and feminist Roja Bandari, who lived under Iran’s religious dictatorship, tweeted this after the 2016 election: “There is no ominous music playing in background in dictatorships. So if you in the US are waiting for a sign, there will be none.”

Esha Bandari, a staff attorney for the ACLU, explained that there’s a long history of passing obscenity laws “in the guise of protecting minors”, but that allow governments to prosecute adults making erotic materials for other adults.

The law was so broadly worded, according to Bandari, that one could get in legal trouble for offering sex education to high school students or even selling “The Catcher in the Rye“.

Like many villagers, Bandari used much of the cash to pay for the schooling and marriages of her children.