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"Pornography" is pretty vague, too. Even the U.S. Supreme Court has had difficulty coming up with a coherent definition for that. Edit: to me (and I suspect mo
by Turing_Machine 5y ago
"Pornography" is pretty vague, too. Even the U.S. Supreme Court has had difficulty coming up with a coherent definition for that.
Edit: to me (and I suspect most of us) pictures of women breastfeeding infants are not "pornography", but you still hear about such images being banned all the time.
- jcranmer 5y agoSCOTUS's current definition of pornography is a three-prong test: 1. whether the average person, applying contemporary "community standards," would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; 2. whether the work depicts or describes, in an offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions, as specifically defined by applicable state law; and 3. whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
- gego 5y ago...so well defined that famous art posted by museums now gets blocked by over-eager bots and moderators...