What three standards make up the Miller test for obscenity?

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In the 1973 case Miller v. California, the U.S. Supreme Court established a three-part test to determine whether a work is obscene and therefore excluded from First Amendment protection. For material to be considered legally obscene, it must meet all three of the following criteria:

  1. The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest (an immoral or lustful desire).12
  2. The work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct that is specifically defined by applicable state law.12
  3. The work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.12

If a work does not satisfy all three parts of this test, it cannot be deemed obscene.2