Santiago Torres, Jose D v. Hospital Damas

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• Congress has barred material from mails which, from standpoint of its effect, predominantly appeals to prurient interest
• Congress has barred material from mails which, from standpoint of its effect, predominantly appeals to prurient interest
• magazines with pictures of nude males admittedly for sale to homosexuals held constitutionally protected
• “[T]hese portrayals of the male nude [in a magazine aimed at gay men] cannot fairly be re- garded as more objectionable than many portrayals of the female nude that society tolerates.”
• “[T]hese portrayals of the male nude [in a magazine aimed at gay men] cannot fairly be re- garded as more objectionable than many portrayals of the female nude that society tolerates.”
• “While in common usage the words [obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile] have different shades of meaning, the [Comstock Act] since its inception has always been taken as aimed at obnoxiously debasing portrayals of sex” [footnote omitted]

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