Which of the following is NOT one of the guidelines for American courts to define obscenity established in the 1973 case of Miller v. California?
a. Whether "the average person applying contemporary community standards" would find that the work,taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest
b. Whether the work or communication depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conductspecifically defined by the applicable state law.
c. Whether the work or communication, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientificvalue.
d. all of these are guidelines established to define obscenity in the 1973 case of Miller v. California
d
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