Obscene' means that to the average person, applying contemporary standards, the predominant appeal of the matter, taken as a whole, is to prurient interest, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, which goes substantially beyond... Committee Prints - Page 30by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1957Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1976 - 1102 pages
...(a)(l) (1975), forbids the sale of obscene matter. Section 11-20 (b) defines "obscene" as follows: "A thing is obscene if, considered as a whole, its predominant appeal is to prurient interest, that is, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1977 - 970 pages
...average person, applying contemporary standards, the predominant appeal of the matter, taken as a whole, is to prurient interest, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion, which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1965 - 636 pages
...American Law Institute, Model Penal Code, Proposed Official Draft (May \, 1962), §251.4(1): "Material is obscene if, considered as a whole, its predominant appeal is to prurient interest . . . and if in addition it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in describing or representing... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1967 - 2352 pages
...•American Law Institute, Model Penal Code, Proposed Official Draft (May 4, 1962), §251.4(1): "Material is obscene if, considered as a whole, its predominant appeal is to prurient interest . . . and if in addition it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in describing or representing... | |
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