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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend)
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Subject: Re: Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies (Updated: 26 July 1988)
Summary: definition of prurient
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Date: 27 Jul 88 23:39:32 GMT
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In article <4535@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes:
> alt.sex			Postings of a prurient nature.

Hey Gene, how about changing the wording of that definition?

Under obscentity laws in some states (and in some federal courts)
obscene materials (among other things) "are of a prurient nature."  Some
laws are much more liberal, but I think using a legal definition of
obscentity, even if it's only used by some states, is begging for
trouble.  Imagine Judge Homer Redneck looking over his child's shoulder
as the child reads Usenet -- "Boy, what ing God's name is *that*?  My
god!  COMMUNISTS!  Trying to CORRUPT our CHILDREN's minds by talking
about SEX!"

Just a paranoid thought from someone who grew up in a state that just
made "having obscene materials or wording, or materials of a prurient
nature on the outside of an automobile operated on Louisiana highways."

Guess I have to ditch my "Fuck you, cop" sticker before I go to Louisiana
again. :-) (Just joking, I have no such sticker -- the Dead Kennedys sticker
is enough trouble on its own.)
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