MC 3080 Chapter : Obscenity To Privacy
Document Summary
Increasingly pervasive in our society, an exception to the unconstitutionality of prior restraint. Pornography-no legal meaning; describes everything from passionate love scenes to hard-core adult material. Indecent material-sexually graphic, adult material, protected by f. a. Obscene material-narrow class of material; not protected; defined by miller v. california in 73. 1821 memoirs of a woman of pleasure conviction. 1927 elmer gantry by sinclair lewis, american tragedy by theodore dreiser. 1944 lady chatterley"s lover by d. h. lawrence, could not be sold in u. s. <1957 hicklin rule: tendency to influence anyone, esp. children. 1957 roth v. u. s. , court began to protect all but utterly without redeeming social value. Led to substantial curtailment of prosecution of sexual material. 1965 memoirs v. mass, mass. banned novel fanny hill aka memoirs of a woman of pleasure (1750). Overturned bc not unqualifiedly worthless, even if patently offensive and prurient.
