ABSTRACT
It is not sufficient that an article disgusts, or is ‘filthy’, ‘loathsome’ or ‘lewd’.51 What must be established is that the article will ‘deprave or corrupt’.52 Nor is it sufficient that the article is capable of depraving or corrupting just one person: the test is whether or not a significant proportion of persons likely to read or see the article would be depraved or corrupted by it.53 The fact that the persons likely to read the article regularly read such materials is irrelevant to whether or not the material can deprave or corrupt,54 although the same argument may not hold if the likely audience is police officers experienced with dealing with pornography.55
