Obscenity

Question 1

The obscene publication act; “…a tendency to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and to whose hands a publication of this sort may fall…”

Answer 1

The Hicklin Test (1857)

Question 2

“The world is the devil’s hunting ground, and children are his choicest game.”

Answer 2

Comstock Laws (1873)

Question 3

Material must be obscene to the average person by contemporary community standards.

Answer 3

Roth Test (1957)

Question 4

The dominant theme taken as a whole must appeal to the prurient interest, must offend contemporary community standards, and must be without any redeeming social value.

Answer 4

Memoirs Test (1966)

Question 5

Depends on whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work appeals to the prurient interest; whether the work depicts or describes in an offensive way sexual conduct; and whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Answer 5

The Miller Test (1973)