deemed to be obscene
if it is lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest or if its effect,
or (where it comprises two or more ... find that the subject-
matter taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest and that taken as
a whole it otherwise lacks serious literary
national standards and considered likely to pander to
lascivious, prurient or sexually precocious minds, must
determine the result. We need not attempt to bowdlerize ... that it could be published in England he could not
excise the prurient parts. He admitted defeat and wrote to
Seekers that
deemed to be obscene if it is lascivious of
appeals to the prurient interest or if its effect,
or (whether it comprises two or more
shall include a dance, -
(i) which is designed only to arouse the prurient interest of the
audience; and
(ii) which consists of a sexual
find that the subject matter
taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest; the subject
matter depicts or describes in a patently offensive ... would find that the work, taken as a
whole, appeals to the prurient interest.;
(b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently
offensive
public decency and morality and likely to "pander to lascivious prurient or sexually precocious mind." She also feels that Khushwant Singh has played ... National standards and considered likely to pander to lascivious, prurient or sexually precocious minds, must determine the result. We need not attempt to bowdlerize
novel would generate a wrong opinion about Tamil culture as lascivious and prurient.
38. The novel has cast aspersions on the womenfolk of the Tiruchengode ... from the epic Mahabharatha cannot be a suggestion for writing a lascivious, prurient, obscene and disparaging novel by the author, especially one involving a temple
sexual intercourse and there can be no doubt that it caters for prurient tastes and is therefore a publication of obscene matter falling under ... book was written, printed and published and brought into circulation for prurient tastes.
The probable effect of the publication was to prejudice public morals
electronic form, any
material which is lascivious or appeals to the
prurient interest or if its effect is such as to tend to
deprave ... Indian Penal Code, of course, uses the
expression “lascivious and prurient interests” or its effect.
Later, it has also been indicated in the said Section
limits prescribed by our Constitution and does not appeal to
the prurient interests in an average person, applying
contemporary community standards while taking the work ... prevalent in our society and is not seeking
to cater to the prurient interests in any person. Therefore, we
have no hesitation in saying that
