On June 21st, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court adopts the "Miller Test", a way courts and law makers can offically deem something as being "obscene" and cannot be protected by the first amendment.The test works like this:
* Whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest,
* Whether the work depicts/describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law,
* Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary and/or artistic, political, or scientific value.
As an example, the above picture does not meet any of the requirements and would be considered obscene.
3 comments:
That is super gross picture. However, clearly of use to medical professionals across the globe.
anonymous = micki (in previous comment)
It's how I USE the picture that counts ;) Did you need to see it? No. Obscene level reached.
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