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(a) whether the "average person, applying contemporary community standards" would find that the work depicting or describing sexual conduct when taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest?, (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.
Well, "contemporary community standards" is absolutely KEY here, and in any other similar case. This was written in 1973 for petes sake.
In 1973 I lived in a tiny town and remember when a divorced woman moved into town! All of us kids speculated whether she was a prostitute because she was divorced, and THAT was un freaking HEARD of. The NORMAL was families where Dad worked, Mom took care of the home and 5 children and 2 cars and a dog, and we had the priest over for dinner once a month! And i'm not joking here.
Freaking comparing the stone age to the computer age here.
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