...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,...in description or representation of such matters. A thing is obscene even though the obscenity is latent, as in the case of undeveloped photographs."...

...ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion; and is matter which taken as a whole goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters; and is matter which taken as a whole is utterly without redeeming social importance." § 311 (a) (Supp....

...obscenity developed in the case law and the definition of the ALI, Model Penal Code, § 207.10 (2) (Tent. Draft No. 6, 1957), viz.: ". . .A thing is...Comment, id., at 10, and the discussion at page 29 et seq. " See, eg, United States v. Dennett, 39 F. 2d 564. Opinion of the Court. 354 US this Court...

...obscenity developed in the case law and the definition of the ALI, Model Penal Code, § 207.10 (2) (Tent. Draft No. 6, 1957), viz.: "... A thing is obscene...Comment, id., at 10, and the discussion at page 29 et aeq. 21 See, eg, United States v. Dennett, 39 F. 2d 564. Opinion of the Court. 354 US this Court...

...is an interest in obscenity for its own sake * * *] (2) Obscene Defined; Method of Adjudication. — A thing is obscene if, considered as a whole, its...in description or representation of such matters. A thing is obscene even if the obscenity is latent, as in the case of undeveloped photographs. Obscenity...

...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...

...law: A thing is obscene if, considered as a whole, its predominant appeal is to prurient interests, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex,...in description or representation of such matters. The Supreme Court's Roth decision is notable for another reason. The Court was faced with answering...

...a kind of [commercial] 'pandering.' " 4* Consistent with this end the code re-defines "obscenity" : "A thing is obscene if, considered as a whole, its...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...

...libidinous character." [1868] LR 3 QB, at 371, Opinion of HARLAN, J. 370 US prurient interest . . . and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits...in description or representation of such matters." ALI, Model Penal Code, Tent. Draft No. 6 (1957), §207.10(2). (Emphasis added.) The same organization's...

...also be recognized that the Roth standard requires in the first instance a finding that the material "goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters." This was a requirement of the Model Penal Code test that we approved in Roth, 354 US, at 487, n. 20,...