Word: prurients
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...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...
Furthermore, he claimed that the writing was filled with "foul language, obscenity, and indecent sexual acts." One of the several criteria for obscenity set forth by the U. S. Supreme Court insists that "the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." Yet the Hansons could not have judged the material "as a whole" since they admitted that they had looked at only parts of the books. And some of the score of "concerned citizens" who joined the Hansons in signing a petition of complaint had not read a single paragraph of the allegedly offensive...
...Supreme Court, has offered what may be a classic definition: "Pornography is in the groin of the beholder." Though, as Rembar notes, there is virtually no such thing as obscenity in the literary legal lexicon today, the courts have insisted that minors should be protected from exposure to prurient material. And by federal law an individual may take action to prevent receipt of unsolicited pornography through the mail...