5.120.090 Exemptions.
This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit:
A. Plays, operas, musicals or other dramatic works which are not obscene;
B. Classes, seminars and lectures held for serious scientific or educational purposes; or
C. Exhibitions, performances or dances which are not obscene.
For purposes of this chapter, any activity is obscene:
1. Which the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, when considered as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; and
2. Which explicitly depicts or describes patently offensive representations or descriptions of:
a. Ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or stimulated, or
b. Masturbation, fellatio, cunnilingus, bestiality, excretory functions or lewd exhibition of the genitals or genital area, or
c. Violent or destructive sexual acts including but not limited to human or animal mutilation, dismemberment, rape or torture; and
3. Which, when considered as a whole, and in the context in which it is used, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. For purposes of this chapter, an activity is dramatic if the activity is of, relating to, devoted to, or concerned specifically or professionally with current drama or the contemporary theater. (Ord. 2149-96 § 3, 1996; Ord. 1196-85 § 1 (I), 1985.)