For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DISTRIBUTE. To transfer possession of, whether with or without consideration.
MATTER. Any book, magazine, newspaper or other printed or written material or any picture, drawing, photograph, motion picture or other pictorial representation or any statue or other figure, or any recording transcription or mechanical, chemical or electrical reproduction or any other articles, equipment, machines or materials.
OBSCENE.
(1) To the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the predominant appeal of the matter, taken as a whole, is to prurient interest in sexual conduct;
(2) The matter depicts or describes the sexual conduct in a patently offensive way; and
(3) The matter, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
PRIVATE EROTIC MATTER. An obscene visual image, including a photograph, film, video recording, or digital reproduction, of an identifiable person, depicting sexual conduct or the exposure of uncovered human genitals, buttocks, or nipple of the female breast. A person may be identifiable from the image itself or from information distributed in connection with the visual image.
SEXUAL CONDUCT. Acts of masturbation, homosexuality, lesbianism, bestiality, sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse; or physical contact with the genitals, flagellation or excretion of the purpose of sexual stimulation or gratification.
(KRS 531.010) (1980 Code, § 1020.18-1)