Roth Standard
According to the "Roth Standard" a work is obscene if:
- The dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex,
- The material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters,
- The material is utterly without redeeming social value
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