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EDITORIAL United States Supreme Court Justices have grappled long and hard with questions
about what is and what isn't obscene, about what artistic or literary materials can be banned before such supression dangerously violates our basic Constitutionally-guaranteed rights and liberties. Yet the Court's determination of what is and what isn't obscene has been fraught with enormous difficulties, primarily because no cut-and-dried definition of obscenity is anywhere to be found.
For example, the following standard was used in judging obscenity in the landmark
case of ROTH v. UNITED STATES (1957):
"Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the
dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest."
But the thoughtful reader will ask himself who is the "average person"? And what
contemporary community standards was the Court talking about—the community in
which the alleged obscene material originated or the area in which it is available
for sale and presUmma-porn-star">Umably read? Further, how does one go about measuring the degree
to which material "appeals to prurient interest"?
Throughout the development of obscenity law in the United States one discerns
a common theme. Obscenity, aside from being seen as aesthetically objectionable,
has the power to incite lustful thoughts which, in turn, cause criminal or pervated
acts. This unconfirmed assumption had a lot to do with causing all the noise about
getting certain books removed from bookstore shelves, firing teachers who permitted
their students to read certain classics of literature and forming regulatory committees whose members see obscenity everywhere except, of course, in their own lives! One is left with the unmistakable impression that those who speak out most vehemently against so-called "obscene material" are precisely those most fascinated with it.
Your right to read what you want to read, to view what you want to view, is a
Constitutionally-protected right. There can be no "clear and present danger" to anyone in society should you want to read or view certain materials in the privacy of your home. That is your business!
