Technical Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, Volumes 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - Erotica |
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... adult population . 2. The kinds of materials that elicit arousal differ according to the sex of the viewer . Females tend to be aroused by less direct , more subtle depictions of sexuality : such material would include romantic stories ...
... adult population . 2. The kinds of materials that elicit arousal differ according to the sex of the viewer . Females tend to be aroused by less direct , more subtle depictions of sexuality : such material would include romantic stories ...
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... these investigators were concerned included ( a ) identification of the classes of pornographic visual material which sexually aroused young adult males , and ( b ) assessment of the role of various personality factors in determining 6.
... these investigators were concerned included ( a ) identification of the classes of pornographic visual material which sexually aroused young adult males , and ( b ) assessment of the role of various personality factors in determining 6.
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... ( adult male graduate students ) , cannot , of course , be answered by this research . is ANOTHER RECENT INVESTIGATION has used frankly pornographic materials as stimuli , and self - reports of sexual arousal as the dependent variable ...
... ( adult male graduate students ) , cannot , of course , be answered by this research . is ANOTHER RECENT INVESTIGATION has used frankly pornographic materials as stimuli , and self - reports of sexual arousal as the dependent variable ...
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... adult females . Though the work is limited , and still just a step removed from the level of clinical demonstrations , such research strongly indicates that responsiveness to " inappropriate " sexual objects can be extinguished ...
... adult females . Though the work is limited , and still just a step removed from the level of clinical demonstrations , such research strongly indicates that responsiveness to " inappropriate " sexual objects can be extinguished ...
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... adult male subjects in Rachman's study demonstrated a strong sexual response to the neutral objects even when they ... adults . THE INFLUENCE OF CONTEXTUAL STIMULI and intrapersonal conflict in the control of sexual fantasy was also ...
... adult male subjects in Rachman's study demonstrated a strong sexual response to the neutral objects even when they ... adults . THE INFLUENCE OF CONTEXTUAL STIMULI and intrapersonal conflict in the control of sexual fantasy was also ...
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Page 84 - ... the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
Page 9 - I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
Page 21 - Under this definition, as elaborated in subsequent cases, three elements must coalesce: it must be established that (a) the 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 contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters; and (c) the material is utterly without redeeming social value.
Page 18 - American courts adopted this standard but later decisions have rejected it and substituted this test: whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interests.
Page 84 - That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is selfprotection; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.
Page 19 - A book cannot be proscribed unless it is found to be utterly without redeeming social value. This is so even though the book is found to possess the requisite prurient appeal and to be patently offensive.
Page 14 - Obscene' means that to the average person, applying contemporary standards, the predominant appeal of the matter, taken as a whole, is to prurient interest, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such matters and is matter which is utterly without redeeming social importance...
Page 15 - All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance — unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion — have the full protection of the guaranties, unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests. But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.
Page 34 - If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
Page 80 - ... notice of any kind, giving information, directly or indirectly, where or how, or of whom or by what means either of the things before mentioned may be obtained or made...