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533.01 GENERAL OFFENSES CODE 86
<br />(5) It makes repeated use of foul language;
<br />(6) It contains a display, description or representation in lurid detail of the
<br />violent physical torture, dismemberment, destruction or death of a human
<br />being;
<br />(7) It contains a display, description or representation of criminal activity which
<br />tends to glorify or glamorize such activity, and which with respect to juveniles
<br />has a dominant tendency to corrupt.
<br />(f) When considered as a whole, and judged with reference to ordinary adults, or, if
<br />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
<br />of 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 a way which tends to
<br />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 wa.y which inspires disgust
<br />or revulsion in persons with ordinary sensibilities, without serving any genuine
<br />scientific, educational, sociological, moral or artistic purpose;
<br />(5) It contains a series of displays or descriptions of sexual activity, masturbation,
<br />sexual excitement, nudity, bestiality, extreme or bizarre violence, cruelty,
<br />or brutality, or human bodily functions of elimination, the cumulative effect
<br />of which is a dominant tendency to appeal to prurient or scatological interest,
<br />when the appeal to such interest is primarily for its own sake or for commercial
<br />exploitation, rather than primarily for a genuine scientific, educational,
<br />sociological, moral or artistic purpose.
<br />(g) "Sexual excitement" means the condition of human male or female genitals when in
<br />a state of sexual stimulation or arousal,
<br />(h) "Nudity" means the showing, representation or depiction of human male or female
<br />genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a full, opaque covering, or of a
<br />female breast with less than a full, opaque covering of any portion thereof below
<br />the top of the nipple; or of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.
<br />(Ord. 75-39. Passed 12-23-75.)
<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, niewspaper, pamphlet, poster, print,
<br />" picture, figure, image, description, motion picture film, phonographic record
<br />or tape, or other tangible thing capable of arousing interest through sight, sound
<br />or touch.
<br />(k) "Performance" means any motion picture, preview, .trailer, play, show, skit,
<br />dance or other exhibition performed before an audience. (ORC 2907.01;
<br />Ord. 75-39. Passed 12-23-75. )
<br />1990 Replacement
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