For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
OFFENSIVE. The work in which the representations appear, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest and patently depicts or portrays the prohibited sexually explicit material in a manner which, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
PUBLIC DISPLAY. In the context of films or motion pictures, means the projection of said films or motion pictures on any viewing screen outside a completely enclosed building or theater. In the context of photographs, drawings, sculptures, or other visual representations, PUBLIC DISPLAY shall mean the placing of materials within the definitions of offensive and sexually explicit material on or in a newsstand, display rack, window, showcase, display case or similar place so that said material is easily visible from public thoroughfare, from the property of others, from a common walk or mall, or from that portion of the interior of places of business generally open to minors at the time of such placing.
SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL. Any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture, film or other visual representation or image depicting uncovered, or less than opaquely covered, pre- or post pubertal human genitals or pubic areas in a lewd fashion, or depicting human sexual intercourse, human or animal masturbation, bestiality, oral intercourse, anal intercourse, human-animal intercourse, excretory functions, homosexual acts, direct physical stimulation or touching of unclothed genitals or pubic areas of the human male or female, flagellation or torture by or upon a person who is nude or clad in revealing
or bizarre costumes in the context of a sexual relationship or sexual stimulation. The material shall be judged without regard to any covering which may be affixed or printed over the material in order to obscure genital areas in a depiction otherwise falling within the definition of these subsections. Works of art or of anthropological significance are not included within the scope of this definition.
('68 Code, § 8-1103) (Ord. 499, passed 12-15-75)