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533.01 GENERAL OFFENSES CODE 86 <br />(1) The material or performance, when considered as a whole, appeals to the <br />prurient interest in sex of juveniles. <br />(2) The material or performance is patently offensive to prevailing standards <br />in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable for <br />juveniles. <br />(3) The material or performance, when considered as a whole, lacks serious <br />literary, artistic, political and scientific value for juveniles. <br />(f) When considered as a whole, and judged with reference to ordinary adults, or, <br />if it is designed for sexual deviates or other specially susceptible group, judged <br />with reference to such group, any material or performance is "obscene" if any of <br />the following apply: <br />(1) Its dominant appeal is to prurient interest; <br />(2) Its dominant tendency is to arouse lust by displaying or depicting sexual <br />activity, masturbation, sexual excitement or nudity in away which tends <br />to represent human beings as mere objects of sexual appetite; <br />(3) Its dominant tendency is to arouse lust by displaying or depicting bestiality <br />or extreme or bizarre violence, cruelty or brutality; <br />(4) Its dominant tendency is to appeal to scatological interest by displaying or <br />depicting human bodily functions of elimination in a way which inspires <br />disgust or revulsion in persons with ordinary sensibilities, without serving <br />any genuine scientific, educational, sociological, moral or artistic purpose; <br />(5) It contains a series of displays or descriptions of sexual activity, <br />masturbation, sexual excitement, nudity, bestiality, extreme or bizarre <br />violence, cruelty or brutality, or human bodily functions of elimination, <br />the cumulative effect of which is a dominant tendency to appeal to prurient <br />or scatological interest, when the appeal to such interest is primarily for <br />its own sake or for commercial exploitation, rather than primarily for a <br />genuine scientific, educational, sociological, moral or artistic purpose. <br />(g) "Sexual excitement" means the condition of human male or female genitals when <br />in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal. <br />(h) "Nudity" means the showing, representation or depiction of human male or <br />female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a full, opaque covering, or <br />of a female breast with less than a full, opaque covering of any portion thereof <br />below the top of the nipple, or of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid <br />state. <br />(i) "Juvenile", "minor" or "child" means an unmarried person under the age of <br />eighteen. (Ord. 85-21. Passed 1-20-86.) <br />(j) "Material" means any book, magazine, newspaper, pamphlet, poster; print, <br />picture, figure, image, description, motion picture film, phonographic record, or <br />tape, or other tangible thing capable of arousing interest through sight, sound, or <br />touch and includes an image or text appearing on a computer monitor, television <br />screen, liquid crystal display, or similar display device or an image or text <br />recorded on a computer hard disk, computer floppy disk, compact disk, magnetic <br />tape or similar data storage device. <br />(k) "Performance" means any motion picture, preview, trailer, play, show, skit; <br />dance or other exhibition performed before an audience: <br />(ORC 2907.01; Ord. 75-39. Passed 12-23-75.) <br />2003 Replacement <br />