Which of the following is NOT a current guideline provided by the Court in determining whether material is obscene?

A. whether an average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest
B. whether the content of isolated passages of a book, rather than the book as a whole, contributes to a general moral decline in society
C. whether a work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law
D. whether a work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value


Answer: B

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