prurient interest

Prurient interest is an excessive or unhealthy interest in sexual matters, judged by whether the average person, applying local community standards, would find the material appeals to a shameful or morbid interest in sex.

Roth v. United States (1957): First defined “prurient interest” as “material having a tendency to excite lustful thoughts”

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