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... majority of adults in our society favor sex education in the schools organized opposition to sex education has emerged in the past two years at both national and local levels . This opposition has resulted in a decelerating rate of ...
... majority of adults in our society favor sex education in the schools organized opposition to sex education has emerged in the past two years at both national and local levels . This opposition has resulted in a decelerating rate of ...
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... majority of American adults believe that adults should be allowed to read or see any sexual materials they wish . On the other hand , a substantial consensus of American adults favors prohibiting young persons access to some sexual ...
... majority of American adults believe that adults should be allowed to read or see any sexual materials they wish . On the other hand , a substantial consensus of American adults favors prohibiting young persons access to some sexual ...
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... majority of persons professionally engaged in the treatment of deviancy , delinquency and antisocial behavior , that exposure to sexually explicit materials has no harmful causal role in these areas . Studies show that a number of ...
... majority of persons professionally engaged in the treatment of deviancy , delinquency and antisocial behavior , that exposure to sexually explicit materials has no harmful causal role in these areas . Studies show that a number of ...
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... majority , this is peculiarly and all impor- tantly the case with laws addressed to standards of morality , which speedily become exercises in community hypocrisy if they do not embody the wishes and convictions of a truly dominant majority ...
... majority , this is peculiarly and all impor- tantly the case with laws addressed to standards of morality , which speedily become exercises in community hypocrisy if they do not embody the wishes and convictions of a truly dominant majority ...
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... majority support essential for the legal codification of community standards does exist . My concurrence in the recommendation for the abolition of obscenity controls for consenting adults is not intended to express my disapproval of ...
... majority support essential for the legal codification of community standards does exist . My concurrence in the recommendation for the abolition of obscenity controls for consenting adults is not intended to express my disapproval of ...
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Page 442 - Hicklin. [L]ater decisions have rejected it and substituted this test: whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.
Page 450 - But implicit in the history of the First ' Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.
Page 447 - It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality.
Page 448 - Under this definition, as elaborated in subsequent cases, three elements must coalesce: it must be established that (a) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters; and (c) the material is utterly without redeeming social value.
Page 630 - ... be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.
Page 545 - For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light...
Page 631 - ... bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality information suggestions, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of this Act; and each such department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, establishment, or instrumentality is authorized and directed to furnish such information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics directly to the Commission, upon request made by the Chairman or Vice Chairman.
Page 454 - ... the business of purveying textual or graphic matter openly advertised to appeal to the erotic interest of their customers.
Page 299 - I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
Page 314 - State may not constitutionally inhibit the distribution of literary material as obscene unless "(a) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters; and (c) the material is utterly without redeeming social value...