Can text-only be legally obscene?

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@eldowan

I think the third point from Bricker is really too ambiguous.

Who gets to decide if a sex/torture story has no artistic or literary value?
Value to whom? I don’t condone, but if someone was to read and then apply those details in real life, wouldn’t the text be of value to the person acting them out?

It isn’t “from Bricker,” it is from legal precedent in the United States.

That’s the test courts use. It’s a very bad one IMHO, but there you have it. Who decides? The court.