The test to be applied in cases under Section 680.02 shall not be whether sexual desires or sexually improper thoughts would be aroused in those comprising a particular segment of the community, but rather the effect of the book, picture or other subject matter of the complaint, considered as a whole, not upon any particular class, but upon all those whom it is likely to reach, that is, its impact upon the average person in the community.
The book, picture or other subject matter of the complaint must be judged as a whole in its entire context, as to whether or not its appeals to the prurient interest in sex, portrays sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and, taken as a whole, does not have serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
(Ord. 237. Passed 7-22-74.)