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Alfred Kinsey — Part 2
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Ofcourse, this rule cuts both ways. Material
distributed to the public at large may not be judged by its
appeal to the most sophie ticatea,2° nor by its appeal to the
17 ana I believe that the cases establish
most susceptible.
that material whose use will be restricted to those i: whose
hands it will not have a prurient appeal is not to be judged
by its appeal to the populace at large. :
In Commonwealth v. Landis, 8 Phila. 453 (@.8. 1870)
defendant had been convicted of publishing an obscene riper 28
The court approved a charge to the Jury in which it was stated
that the publication would be justified if “made for a legiti-
mate and useful purpose, and .. mot made from any motive of
mere gain or with a corrupt desire to debauch society." ,
8 Phila. 453, 454 (Q.S. 1870). While scientific and medical
publications "in proper hands for useful purposes” may contain
16 see the charge to the pr quoted in Roth v. United
" States, 354 U.S. 476, 490 (1957).
17 «Butler v. Michigan, 52 0.8. 380 §2957)5 Yolanski v.
United States, (6th Cir. 1957).
18 me book was entitled "Secrets of Generation." .
Commonwealth v. Gordon, 66 D. & C. 101, 121 (Phila. Q.8. 1949).
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