Google Trends vs. Community Standards On Obscenity

circletimessquare writes "Google Trends is being used in a novel way in a pornography trial in Florida. Under a 1973 Supreme Court ruling, 'contemporary community standards' may be used as a yardstick for judging material as unprotected obscenity. This is a very subjective judgment, and so Lawrence Walters, a defense lawyer for Clinton Raymond McCowen, is using Google Trends to show that, in the privacy of their own homes, more people in Pensacola (the only city in the court's jurisdiction that is large enough to be singled out in the service's data) are interested in 'orgy' than "apple pie'."

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Re:more interested in orgy than apple pie?

[JasterBobaMereel]

Ahhh Apple Pie so typically American

Originally from Europe, Not Native
Done exactly like they have done it in Europe for 500 years ... So typically American

 

Re:Petard, meet hoist.

[redxxx]

Sexual intercourse is meant to be an act performed in private for the two parties that love and care for each other deeply enough to create a stronger bond. Citation please. my high-school biology seemed t indicate it was for procreation. I can find nothing to indicate that the point of fucking is to be private.

Do you censure fish who conduct the act of procreation on a mass scale in front of other fish?

God says so. The bible and catholic church say so.

Without some sort of intelligent designer, it is not all that possible to attribute intent, other than procreation, to intercourse. You can argue that there are benefits to certain types of behavior, but without god you can't attach intent to them.