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	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		The word "prurient," as used in subsection (2)(a), is defined in subsection (8) to mean "that which incites lasciviousness or lust." 7.48A.010(8).
		Pullman Co., 312 U.S. Reaching the merits, the Court of Appeals held that by including "lust" in its definition of "prurient," the Washington state legislature had intended the statute to reach material that merely stimulated normal sexual responses, material that it considered to be constitutionally protected.
		As already noted, material appealing to the "prurient interest" was itself the definition of obscenity announced in Roth; and we are quite sure that by using the words "lustful thoughts" in footnote 20, the Court was referring to sexual responses over and beyond those that would be characterized as normal.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=472&invol=491 (5834 words)

	Miller test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Miller test was developed in the 1973 case Miller v.
		Whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest,
		Whether the work depicts/describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable state law,
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prurience (574 words)

	Prurient (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		To be prurient is to be characterized by inordinate and unhealthy sexual interest or desire.
		"Prurience" -- the perennial itch of mankind -- is the bete noir of all censors.
		Note that "community" standards—not national standards—are applied as to whether the material appeals to the prurient interest; thus, material may be deemed obscene in one locality but not in another.
	www.jahsonic.com /Prurient.html (1104 words)

	No. 98-0602
		Appealing to the prurient interests means the material attempts to or intends to appeal generally to a shameful or morbid interest in sex, nudity or excretion which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such matters.
		The material must be considered as a whole, looking at the dominant theme, and should not be considered on the basis of isolated passages.
		Prurience has been defined as "a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion," and a "thing is obscene if,...
	www.wisbar.org /res/capp/z1998/98-0602.htm (1966 words)

	Is Pornography Bad?
		Prurience and patent offensive are determined according to the local community standards of the jurors trying the case-- a problematic approach when it comes to materials transmitted over the Net or posted on private BBS's accessible from anywhere.
		The rather pedantic "prurience" and "patent offensiveness" tests have been described as follows: the material must turn you on ("prurience") and gross you out ("patent offensiveness").
		The SLAP test suggests that material of equivalent prurience and offensiveness may stand or fall depending on whether there is an artistic element or other aspect of legitimate speech.
	www.spectacle.org /1195/pornbad.html (1057 words)

	3quarksdaily
		In 1771, the Scottish naturalist William Smellie used an article in the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (of which he was the main compiler) to attack the “alluring seductions” of the Linnaean system of plant classification.
		His outrage was shared by the English naturalist William Goodenough, who was appalled by Linnaeus’s “disgusting names, his nomenclatural wantonness, vulgar lasciviousness, and the gross prurience of his mind”.
		The subject of all this moral outrage was the methodus propria (“proper method”) of plant classification, devised by the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné, better known by the Latinized version of his name as Linnaeus.
	3quarksdaily.blogs.com /3quarksdaily/2006/03/carl_linnaeus_h.html (370 words)

	Reason magazine -- December 1998, Political Prurience by Michael W. Lynch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Starr report confronted congressional smut warriors with an inconvenient reality: The prurient is often political.
		While lurid at times, the report isn't "harmful to minors," according to the three-part test Oxley's bill would establish to judge potentially damaging material.
		It certainly appeals to one's "prurient interest" and describes "perverted sexual acts"--the first two prongs of the harmful-to-minors test.
	www.reason.com /9812/ci.ml.political.shtml (199 words)

	Who's the hunted now? \| Salon.com
		Until this week, Diana's expiring body is literally obscene -- "off scene" -- in a way that much of her life was not.
		We all knew that pictures of a dying Diana in the back of the car were snapped by the paparazzi pursuing her moments after the impact, and that these landed on the desks of newspapers the next day.
		The left-liberal Guardian denounced the way CBS had plumbed "new depths of prurience"; the Daily Mail thundered on about the "ultimate betrayal." Much of the media here, though, had few qualms about showing images of, say, mutilated Americans in Fallujah.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/feature/2004/04/23/diana/index.html (435 words)

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		Their need to visualize desire becomes nearly inseparable from their desperate effort to validate desire that is made strange by social disapproval.
		It wasn't until Munch sublimated his autobiographical concerns in The Sleepy Time Gal (2001), investing the story of several dissatisfied, renegade (even heterosexual) characters with his own outsider's empathy, that I could see he was serious rather than trendy.
		Munch is back to prurience with his new movie and, surprisingly, it almost works.
	www.nypress.com /18/7/film/ArmondWhite2.cfm (1143 words)

	NR Feature Article February 23, 1998
		They tell us what we instinctively feel about moral questions, which is not always what we say we say in public statements.
		The modern political class, for whom tolerance is the only virtue, would like to say, ``It's not the sex, it's the tabloids.'' On this view, private sexual behavior, however bizarre, can never be a scandal.
		It is simply an aspect of ``human nature.'' The real scandal is the tabloids -- the vanguard of public prurience (itself a pejorative description of respectability).
	www.nationalreview.com /23feb98/osullivan022398.html (841 words)

	bookofjoe: Mütter Museum: Medical 'Way-Back' Machine
		And there are tutorials and waxen images of conjoined twins, a metaphor for interdependence that remains as vivid as any.
		If one has the stomach, girded by a bit of prurience, the Mütter can be rewarding, enlightening even.
		Neither the passage of time nor the dust on the glass obscured the fact that we are frail creatures, often blown about by forces beyond our control.
	www.bookofjoe.com /2006/01/mtter_museum_me.html (1483 words)

	Telegraph \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When we see the body of a middle-class white person, it is because we are invited to learn a lesson from a tragedy, as was the case when the parents of Rachel Whitear released pictures of the dead 21-year-old with a needle in her arm to warn other young people about the dangers of heroin.
		On the whole, we like an excuse for our prurient interest in the suffering or the death of other people.
		We stare at emaciated Aids or famine victims because, in exchange for their loss of dignity, we offer up our concern about the wider issue.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/24/ndi124.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/04/24/ixhome.html (1102 words)

	Chico News and Review May 04, 2006
		Politics, prurience and apostasy from the good reverend.
		The Rev. and his compliant neighbor go stalking the wild bikini hunt.
		Finally, an amazing collection of greatest hits from the king of belly dance music, George Abdo.
	www.newsreview.com /chico/Archive?author=oid:2969 (921 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Prurience, the Media and the Soham Murders
		There is a dark and well-fed hunger for stories of sexual violence and sex crimes, especially involving minors or young girls, in the UK (as I'd imagine, in most other places).
		It dresses itself as well-meaning concern and outrage, but it's based in a prurience which is unhealthily voyeuristic.
		It's quite clear that one question runs through many minds - what would it be like to do that, if they were less conventianal, less scared of consequences.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2006/02/04/154106.php (1336 words)

	“Short Head” Vulgarity and Prurience « MaisonBisson.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb.
		Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.
		I’m giving all of this special consideration as I enter the heart of “short head” vulgar and prurient America: Las Vegas.
	maisonbisson.com /blog/post/10544 (245 words)

	Distressed Damsel
		She suspected Lady Prurience, who had been jealous of all her business, might have had a hand in it somewhere, but she had no way to prove it.
		The renewal of sensation caused her skin to tingle as though her body had been asleep while she was gone.
		Lady Prurience herself grabbed a sheet from the bed and rushed into a side room.
	home.comcast.net /~kousen/Fiction/DistressedDamsel.html (2363 words)

	IslandMix - Poison -Prurience Section
		Hi and Thank you for signing up with Prurience.
		If you are a member of Prurience you may join for $100TT, if you are not than it is $200TT.
		Due to the fact that we have filled up so quickly we must ask that everyone who has registered online but has not yet paid a deposit do so before the 25th of December.
	www.islandmix.com /backchat/showthread.php?t=1974 (234 words)

	Carte blanche for dictators if the US chucks in the sheriff's badge - smh.com.au
		While there are some good arguments against the threat of war (which is not the same as the actuality of war - that depends on Iraq), the various anti-war protests are worrying for their lack of rationality.
		Women stripping off at Leichhardt Oval are clearly indulging in some strange manifestation of their collective unconscious, if they are not merely trying to exploit the prurience of the media.
		Perhaps the next stage will be an application to the Australia Council for grants for such events as some kind of installation art.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/03/03/1046540134523.html (741 words)

	Public Discourse v.Gossip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Like censorship over freedom, zealotry over skepticism, prudishness over excess, so loose tongues and prurience periodically gain ascendance over sober analysis of global and domestic policy.
		Our political and our wider culture have been enriched by imaginative forms of gossip, from Aristophanes to the Goncourt Brothers and on to J 1000 oan Rivers and even Larry Flynt, whom the Supreme Court laudably protected when his ad parody of the pompous Jerry Falwell led to litigation.
		But the kind of gossip that serves as a check upon power seems debased in this recent cycle of prurience, as though we had committed ourselves to daily whisperings that we would not tolerate about our neighbors at the backyard fence.
	www.cardozo.yu.edu /life/fall1998/weisberg/index.shtml (2111 words)

	Guardian \| We've crossed the boundary between pity and prurience
		We've crossed the boundary between pity and prurience
		We should beware of prurience and histrionics, even at this awful moment.
		But it has balance and it has, above all, a sense of decency.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4484854-105248,00.html (1114 words)

	from the heart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Posted Prurience Page - a woman sent a guy a copy of my prurience page and he wondered what that meant and what to do.
		Either you make her think prurient thoughts, or she wants you to go beat off on the web.
		I have learned what to expect from the kind of girl who sends prurience pages around.
	www.links.net /dox/advice/luvseks (378 words)

	Ask the TV Networks to Support Religious Liberty - Interfaith Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In a multi-faith nation founded on religious liberty, responsible freedom of religious expression must not be blocked from the public airwaves.
		Everyday the networks broadcast programs of prurience and violence; divisive messages-of-the-day from partisan organizations and political and corporate advertisements that deceive and divide people.
		Indeed, cable networks, including one owned by NBC, regularly invite guests onto their political talk programs whose sole purpose is to invoke controversy and increase ratings.
	www.interfaithalliance.org /site/pp.asp?c=8dJIIWMCE&b=261201 (478 words)

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		Of course, prurience and the skewering of cliché have always...
		Of course, prurience and the skewering of cliché have always been band specialties.
		But on Party Animals, the sleaze seems posed, and spread over the well-used hard rock riffs and stomping proto-metal.
	www.mp3.com /albums/20052688/summary.html (388 words)

	Bookleggers and Smuthounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the epilogue I want to show how endemic prurience has been in American discourse about sex since the interwar period.
		I cover Ralph Ginzburg, cyberspace erotica, the Communications Decency Act, the FCC guidelines, censorship of public school textbooks, Larry Flynt, and end with a group who--heroically if quixotically--want prurience to go away: the "post-porn feminists".
		Artists and merchants subject to attack as sleazy or indecent today could easily identify with their predecessors, and profit from considering what was won and lost as they went about their business.
	home.earthlink.net /~jgertzma/booksite (1071 words)

	These Damned Machines Are Killing Me: Prurience and Prudery
		These Damned Machines Are Killing Me: Prurience and Prudery
		It’s a stunted combination of prurience and prudery.
		I want to acknowledge here that I am the same person who linked to that obscene-but-kind-of-funny Son of a Peach movie a few days ago.
	www.damnedmachines.com /archives/2005/02/prudery_and_pru.html (318 words)

	Virus Threat Center - Bawdy holiday worm preys on prurience - TechRepublic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Virus Threat Center - Bawdy holiday worm preys on prurience - TechRepublic
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		Antivirus software maker Sophos identified a new worm on Tuesday that is being hidden in an e-mail attachment that includes a nude photo.
	www.virusthreatcenter.com /article.aspx?articleId=308 (360 words)

	Blogit > Editormum's Oddments > Comments on Is Prurience Really Humour? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Blogit > Editormum's Oddments > Comments on Is Prurience Really Humour?
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		I look back on my childhood years and think how much differently children today are being raised.
	www.blogit.com /Blogs/Comments.aspx/7246 (213 words)

	Pugnacity, Power, Prurience, and Greed
		Pugnacity, Power, Prurience and Greed: Preachers from the Frontier to the Television
		In the Southern frontier the camp meeting played an unparalleled social role, acting as not only a stricture on other forms of social entertainment such as drinking, horseracing and brawling, but also as an entertaining, revitalizing form of social interaction.
		We ask that users cite the source and support the archives that have provided materials to the Spirit site.
	writing2.richmond.edu /spirit/archive/adkins.html (7689 words)

	Sunday Times prurience
		He’s never made a secret of his two jobs.
		As for the Sunday Times – why are they pushing this sort of prurient stuff?
		Do they really think that employers should check potential employees in case they dislike some aspect of their private life?
	www.igreens.org.uk /sunday_times_prurience.htm (362 words)

	OkCupid! Comparing Rain515 and Dhar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		=====Prurience wrote===== I thought I'd give you the first impression, since you didn't have that info.
		And I'm sure every other person who has messaged you has done the exact same thing, right?
		Prurience had this to say: "The first thing noticed would the the expression on your face and the look in your eyes.
	www.okcupid.com /compare?x=Rain515&y=Dhar (683 words)

	Running with Scissors - I Love L.A. -- Lick the Prurience Off the Sheen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Running with Scissors - I Love L.A. -- Lick the Prurience Off the Sheen
		Mornings are the worst in the city, and it’s not even the drive.
		For more of Running with Scissors, make sure you check out the archive.
	www.theguycode.com /stories/index.php?name=run&id=515 (993 words)

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