Word: prurient
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After viewing the film "in its tedious entirety," Judge Moore and his colleagues agreed that it was protected by the First Amendment because it fell far short of the Supreme Court's standards for obscenity. The prevailing doctrine requires 1) appeal to prurient interest as a dominant theme, 2) patent offensiveness and 3) utter lack of redeeming social value. Though Moore dryly noted that Language is unlikely to be viewed "primarily by marriage counselors and their patients in a professional setting," he found no predominant prurience in a film that treats intercourse with all the passion...
...Fanny Hill case (1966), Justice William Brennan, writing for a three-man plurality of the Supreme Court, held that a work is obscene only it meets three criteria simultaneously 1) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest; 2) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards; and 3) the material is "utterly" without redeeming social value. To what extent do worthy parts redeem the whole? In Curious the explicit sexual adventures of the films heroine, Lena, are only part of her activities; much of the movie is devoted...
...Pauli papers have been helped by prurient publicity from West German courts, which have fined the Nachrichten more than $1,000 for "encouraging and abetting illicit intercourse." Even without such unsolicited testimonials, the papers seem to have the formula that will eventually drive their circulation past 1,000,000-a readership exceeded by only two newspapers in the Federal Republic. "I don't bother with sports or politics," says Publisher Rosenberg, who has only three full-time $218-a-month writers on his staff. "I give 'em sex, lots of it, straight and enjoyable. You never read about...
...have saved Mary Jo's life by seeking help swiftly, as Diver John Farrar, who recovered Mary Jo's body, claims? Was Kennedy trying for nine or ten hours to elude responsibility for her death? Public interest in the case has sometimes been morbid or even prurient but, as Kennedy knows, much of the curiosity is not only understandable but legitimate. Eventually, he will have to satisfy...