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... Antiobscenity Legislation: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress ... - 301. lappuseautors: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 - 1970 - 1222 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1977 - 970 lapas
...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,...in description or representation of such matters." § 1. On direct appeal, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed when petitioner's appellate... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1957 - 834 lapas
...is to prurient interests, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters. The Supreme Court's Roth decision is notable for another reason. The Court was faced with answering... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1957 - 670 lapas
...is to prurient interest, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters. . . ." See Comment, id., at 10, and the discussion at page 29 et aeq. 21 See, eg, United States v.... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 - 1958 - 138 lapas
...appeal is to prurient interest, i. e_ a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, and it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters. Mr. WALTER. Before you go any further, I am acquainted with this definition. "What do you think of... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1959 - 76 lapas
...is to prurient interests, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters. The Supreme Court's Roth decision is notable for another reason. The Court was faced with answering... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1960 - 176 lapas
...is to prurient interest, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters." ** Since the law's paramount objective, as avowed by the code's draftsmen, should be to stop commercial... | |
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