Coon v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “(1)“Obscene” means material or a performance that: (A) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest in sex; (B) depicts or describes: (i) patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including sexual intercourse, sodomy, and sexual bestiality; or (ii) patently offensive representations or descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions, sadism, masochism, lewd exhibition of the genitals, the male or female genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal, covered male genitals in a diseernibly turgid state or a device designed and marketed as useful primarily for stimulation of the human genital organs; and (C)taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, and scientific value. (2) “Material” means anything tangible that is capable of being used or adapted to arouse interest, whether through the medium of reading, observation, sound, or in any other manner, but does not include an actual three dimensional obscene device. (3) “Performance” means a play, motion picture, dance, or other exhibition performed before an audience. (4) “Patently offensive” means so offensive on its face as to affront current community standards of decency. (5) “Promote” means to manufacture, issue, sell, give, provide, lend, mail, deliver, transfer, transmit, publish, distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, exhibit, or ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rees v. State