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What is Judging Obscenity : A Critical History of Expert Evidence about?
He demonstrates that these communities of experts are divided on such questions as, Can a novel or film be both high art and obscene? and, Is the world of heterosexual pornography categorically different from the worlds of gay and lesbian pornography? He observes that the ideas of an "average" psychological or behavioral response to a story or an image and the "community" standard of decency or tolerance are outmoded myths that elude all attempts at careful measurement. Nowlin concludes that lac
Who reads Judging Obscenity : A Critical History of Expert Evidence?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Christopher Jon Nowlin
- Publisher
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780773570900
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- Law
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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