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... concern . " The Federal Government was deemed to have a " responsibility to investigate the gravity of this situation and to determine whether such materials are harmful to the public , and particularly to minors , and whether more ...
... concern . " The Federal Government was deemed to have a " responsibility to investigate the gravity of this situation and to determine whether such materials are harmful to the public , and particularly to minors , and whether more ...
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... concern to sexual obscenity , including sadomasochistic material , because the leg- islative history indicated this as the focus of congressional concern as reflected by the linking of obscenity with pornography in the Act creating the ...
... concern to sexual obscenity , including sadomasochistic material , because the leg- islative history indicated this as the focus of congressional concern as reflected by the linking of obscenity with pornography in the Act creating the ...
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... concern have been completely researched nor all questions answered . It also recognizes that the interpretations of a set of " facts " in arriving at policy implications may differ even among men of good will . Never- theless , the ...
... concern have been completely researched nor all questions answered . It also recognizes that the interpretations of a set of " facts " in arriving at policy implications may differ even among men of good will . Never- theless , the ...
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... concern applies to a broad range of materials . There- fore , the Commission determined to report on the commercial traffic and distri- bution of sexually oriented materials in motion picture films , books , and period- icals . The ...
... concern applies to a broad range of materials . There- fore , the Commission determined to report on the commercial traffic and distri- bution of sexually oriented materials in motion picture films , books , and period- icals . The ...
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... concerned , it is probably not possible to exceed the candor , graphic descrip- tions of sexual activity , and use of vulgar language in some currently distributed " adults only " paperback books . The pictorial content of some ...
... concerned , it is probably not possible to exceed the candor , graphic descrip- tions of sexual activity , and use of vulgar language in some currently distributed " adults only " paperback books . The pictorial content of some ...
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Page 431 - American courts adopted this standard but later 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 544 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 612 - ... All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance — unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion — have the full protection of the guaranties, unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests. But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.
Page 449 - 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 430 - There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words— those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.
Page 455 - ... the business of purveying textual or graphic matter openly advertised to appeal to the erotic interest of their customers.
Page 468 - It is not the book that is on trial; it is a person. The conduct of the defendant is the central issue, not the obscenity of a book or picture. The nature of the materials is, of course, relevant as an attribute of the defendant's conduct, but the materials are thus placed in context from which they draw color and character. A wholly different result might be reached in a different setting. The personal element in these cases is seen most strongly in the requirement of scienter. Under the California...
Page 430 - All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance — unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion — have the full protection of the [First Amendment] guaranties, unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests.
Page 315 - 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...
Page 490 - Members of the commission shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. The...