Reader Response
September, 1987
The Supreme Court is looking for a few good men--only reasonable ones need apply.On May fourth, the Court decided that "community standards" cannot determine if a work has serious value. Under the old ruling, material was deemed obscene if:• The average person, applying contemporary community standards, found that the work, taken as a whole, appealed primarily to libidinous or lewd interests;• The material depicted in a patently offensive way sexual conduct specifically defined by an a...
