called 'obscene', 'vulgar', 'depraving', 'prurient' and 'immoral'.3 No doubt this form ... dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts
Amendment - if, taken as a whole, the material (1) appeals to the
prurient interest in sex, as determined by the average person applying
contemporary community ... dominant
theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.” Under
this definition, as elaborated in subsequent cases, three elements must
coalesce
Amendment - if, taken as a whole, the material (1) appeals to
the prurient interest in sex, as determined by the average
person applying contemporary community ... dominant theme of the
material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.”
Under this definition, as elaborated in subsequent cases,
three elements must coalesce
oriented
material which may not be obscene otherwise
but still caters to prurient interest of the minor.
ii) Minors have got fundamental right under
Article ... regulating the
access of minors to adult oriented sexual, titilliating or
prurient material.
Mr. Harish Chandra, learned senior counsel appearing
for Union of India - respondent
judged by our national standard and considered likely to pander to lascivious prurient or sexually precocious minds, must determine the result. A balance ... judged by our National standards and considered likely to pander to lascivious, prurient or sexually precocious minds, must determine the result. We need not attempt
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
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
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
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
again with titilating scenes catering to the lascivious taste of the prurient. There are also scenes in the film showing the evil spirit sending thunderbolts ... material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. Obscenity could not be judged by the effect of isolated passages
