Also known as: panders · pandered · pandering · procuring · pimping
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Commercial exploitation of sexually oriented material solely for its prurient appeal, as shown through advertising, instructions to authors, or targeted audience selection.
Pearl Porter contracted with Pulse Media for a one-of-a-kind advertising campaign featuring targeted prurient content. Pulse Media breached by refusing to deliver the campaign and offered only market-value damages. Because a comparable substitute campaign matching the specific audience targeting and creative elements could not be readily obtained elsewhere, the court found damages inadequate and ordered specific performance.
Peter Park received state scholarship funds conditioned on avoiding certain pandering activities in his studies. When the state revoked the funds after discovering pandering elements in his work, Park challenged the revocation as violating free exercise protections. The court upheld the revocation because the condition targeted conduct rather than belief.
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Paul Peterson operated a business distributing materials that pandered to prurient interests. OSHA inspectors arrived without a warrant to examine the premises. Peterson refused entry, arguing the inspection violated Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless searches.
Patricia Patel published an advertisement in State A promoting services that pandered to prurient interests. State A prosecuted her under a statute banning such ads. The court struck down the prosecution because the First Amendment protects commercial speech about lawful activity in another state.
Penelope Price, a state-owned entity, sold goods that pandered to prurient interests only to in-state buyers. An out-of-state purchaser challenged the restriction as violating the dormant Commerce Clause. The court upheld the policy because the state was acting as a market participant rather than a regulator.
Patrick Phan promoted religious materials that pandered to prurient interests while claiming spiritual benefits. Followers sued alleging fraud in the promotion. The court examined whether the claims were sincerely held beliefs or deliberate commercial exploitation.
Advertising, instructions to authors, and targeted audience selection that focus solely on prurient appeal are probative of pandering. This evidence helps determine whether material is obscene by revealing the purveyor's own assessment of its nature.
Under COPA, material is harmful to minors if it is designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest of minors, depicts sexual acts in a patently offensive way with respect to minors, and lacks serious value for minors. Pandering is one element of the modified Miller standard.
No. Pandering or titillating presentation weighs in favor of an indecency finding, but context such as news or cultural commentary may reduce the risk of sanction even when material is explicit. Timing when children are likely present remains critical.
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