Obscenity
Displaying obscene content on web pages is illegal in the United States.
([ 18 U.S.C., p1, Chapter 71]) but the definition of obscene is much less specific than the definition of ChildExploitation. Obscenity is generally governed by the Supreme Court Case Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973) which resulted in a three part test for obscenity. The test begins with a reference to community standards and ends with the question of serious value. The Miller Test is quoted below:
(a) whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to PurientInterest,
(b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law, and
(c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
- Appeals to prurient interest as defined by AboutUs:CommunityStandards
- Patently offensive sexual conduct(content) that lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value
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