Use of the Postal Service for the Unsolicited Advertisement of Hard-core Pornographic Or Otherwise Obscene Material: Hearing Before a Subcommittee...91-1, July 8, 19691969 - 41 pages |
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Page 6 - Hicklin. [L]ater decisions have rejected it and substituted this test: whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.
Page 28 - ... shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or by any letter carrier.
Page 6 - Under this definition, as elaborated in subsequent cases, three elements must coalesce: it must be established that (a) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters; and (c) the material is utterly without redeeming social value.
Page 28 - The United States may give up the Post Office when it sees fit, but while it carries it on the use of the mails is almost as much a part of free speech as the right to use our tongues...
Page 6 - To condemn a motion picture it must be established that (a) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex...
Page 19 - GSA will avoid locations which will work a hardship on employees because (1) there is a lack of adequate housing for low- and middle-income employees within a reasonable proximity, and (2) the location is not readily accessible for other areas of the urban center.
Page 23 - Sexually oriented advertisement" means any advertisement that depicts, in actual or simulated form, or explicitly describes, in a predominantly sexual context, human genitalia, any act of natural or unnatural sexual intercourse, any act of sadism or masochism, or any other erotic subject directly related to the foregoing. Material otherwise within the definition of this subsection shall be deemed not to constitute a sexually oriented advertisement if it constitutes only a small and insignificant...
Page 23 - USC section 3010 (d) defines a "sexually oriented advertisement" as "any advertisement that depicts, in actual or simulated form, or explicitly describes, in a predominantly sexual context, human genitalia, any act of natural or unnatural sexual intercourse, any act of sadism or masochism, or any other erotic subject directly related to the foregoing.
Page 19 - In acquiring space by lease, locations will be avoided which will work a hardship on employees because (1) there is a lack of adequate housing for low- and middle-income employees on a nondiscriminatory basis within reasonable proximity and (2) the location is not readily accessible from other areas of the urban center.
Page 6 - It is therefore vital that the standards for judging obscenity safeguard the protection of freedom of speech and press for material which does not treat sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.