For Material to Be Considered Obscene?

Obscenity refers to a narrow category of pornography that violates contemporary community standards and has no serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. For adults at least, most pornography — material of a sexual nature that arouses many readers and viewers — receives constitutional protection.

How do we determine when material is obscene or not?

The Miller test for obscenity includes the following criteria: (1) whether 'the average person, applying contemporary community standards' would find that the work, 'taken as a whole,' appeals to 'prurient interest' (2) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically ...

What three conditions must be met for material to be considered obscene?

Three requirements must be met in order for material to be deemed obscene: 1) the material must appeal to the prurient interest for the average person as determined by a community standard, 2) the material must be patently offensive under the law prohibiting obscenity, and 3) as a whole, it must lack serious redeeming ...