Laws, cont.

• a) depicts sexual or excretory acts listed in state obscenity statute,

• b) depicts those acts in a "patently offensive" manner, appealing to the "prurient interest," as judged by a reasonable person applying the standards of the community, and

• c) lacks "serious" literary, artistic, social, political, or scientific value.

1911 treaty (Protocol to amend the Convention for the Suppression of the Circulation of, and Traffic in, Obscene Publications, concluded at Geneva on 12 September 1923) to prohibit obscenity trafficking.

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