...adopted this standard 25 but later decisions have rejected it and substituted this test : whether to the average person, applying contemporary community...the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.26 The Hicklin test, judging obscenity by the effect of isolated passages upon the most susceptible...

...are responsible for enforcing antiobscenity laws. The test which the Court approved is: "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community...the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interests." The American Law Institute's tentative draft, section 207.10, Model Penal Code, defines...

...susceptible persons" does not pertain ix' American law, and we have adopted the standard "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community...standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appears to prurient interest." The Court went on to say in the Roth case, '.'The Hicklin...

...apparently accepted a definition of obscenity which says that it should be considered as to whether to the average person, applying contemporary community...material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. My question is, Do you feel that we should attempt to define obscenity and try to have the Congress...

...for judging obscenity, adequate to withstand the charge of unconstitutional infirmity, is whether, to the average person, applying contemporary community...material taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest. The court had doubts as to whether the average person would be able to apply the phrase, "appeals to...

...in most States to incorporate the principle stated by the Supreme Court (June 24, 1957) "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community...the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interests." To bring about such a wholesome change, and to insure opportunity for jury decisions to...

...are responsible for enforcing antiobscenity laws. The test which the Court approved is: "whether to the average person, applying contemporary community...the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interests." The American Law Institute's tentative draft, section 207.10, Model Penal Code, defines...

...lecherous, dissolute, sensual, debauched, impure, salacious, or pornographic. "Obscene" means that to the average person, applying contemporary community...material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, or other legal entity....

...lecherous, dissolute, sensual, debauched, impure, salacious, or pornographic. "Obscene" means that to the average person, applying contemporary community...material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest. "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, or other legal entity....

...giving the opinion of the US Supreme Court in the Roth case in 1957, used this definition: "Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community...material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." This is approximately the definition, Senator, that you have incorporated in the amendment which you...