The following definitions are
applicable to this act:
1. "Minor" means any person less than eighteen (18) years of age.
2. "Nudity" means the showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic
area or buttocks with less than a full opaque covering, or the showing of the
female breast with less than a full opaque covering of any portion thereof
below the top of the nipple, or the depiction of covered male genitals in a
discernibly turgid state.
3. "Sexual conduct" means any act of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual
intercourse, or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed
genitals, pubic area, buttocks or, if such person be a female, the breast.
4. "Sexual excitement" means the condition of human male or female
genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.
5. "Sado-masochistic abuse" means flagellation or torture by or upon a
person who is nude or clad in undergarments, a mask or bizarre costume, or the
condition of being fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained on the
part of one who is nude or so clothed.
6. "Harmful to minors" includes in its meaning one or both of the
following:
(a) The quality of any material or of any performance or of any
description or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual
conduct, sexual excitement, or sado-masochistic abuse, when it:
(1) appeals to the prurient interest of minors as judged by the average
person, applying contemporary community standards; and
(2) depicts or describes representations or descriptions of nudity,
sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sado-masochistic abuse which
are patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community
with respect to what is suitable material for minors and includes,
but is not limited to, patently offensive representations or
descriptions of:
(i) intimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated;
or
(ii) masturbation, excretory functions or lewd exhibition of the
genitals or genital area. Nothing herein contained is intended
to include or proscribe any matter which, when considered as a
whole, and in context in which it is used, possesses serious
literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors,
according to prevailing standards in the adult community, with
respect to what is suitable for minors.
(b) The quality of any material or of any performance, or of any
description or representation, in whatever form, which, as a whole, has
the dominant effect of substantially arousing sexual desires in persons
under the age of eighteen (18) years.
7. "Material" means anything tangible which is harmful to minors, whether
derived through the medium of reading, observation or sound.
8. "Performance" means any play, motion picture, dance or other
exhibition performed before an audience.
9. "Promote" means to manufacture, issue, sell, give, provide, deliver,
publish, distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, exhibit or advertise, or
to offer or agree to do the same.
10. "Knowingly" means having general knowledge of, or reason to know, or
a belief or reasonable ground for belief which warrants further inspection or
inquiry. |
