It shall be a defense to a prosecution under this subchapter that:
(A) The person had reasonable cause to believe that the minor involved was 18 years of age or more, and reasonable cause is based on grounds such as, but not limited to, the presentation by the minor involved to the person of a draft card, driver’s license, birth certificate or other official or apparently official document purporting to establish that the minor was 18 years of age or more;
(B) The minor was accompanied by his or her parent or guardian and the person had reasonable cause to believe that the person accompanying the minor was the parent or guardian of that minor;
(C) The person’s activity consists of teaching in regularly established and recognized educational institutions, galleries or libraries, or the publication or use of standard textbooks, films, tapes or visual aids of any such institution, or the practice of licensed practitioners of medicine or of pharmacy in their regular business or profession, or the possession by established schools teaching art, or by public art galleries, or artists or models in the necessary line of their art, or to relevant references to or accounts or portrayal of nudity, sex or excretion in religion, art, literature, history, science, medicine, public health, law, the judicial process, law enforcement, education, public libraries or news reports and news pictures by any form of news media of general circulation; and
(D) The person has no financial interest in an activity, product or event entitling such person to participate in the promotion, management, proceeds or profits of the activity, product or event, and the person’s only connection with the activity, product or event entitles the person to a reasonable salary or wages for services actually rendered.
(Prior Code, § 36-43)