6.64.100 Exemptions.
(a) This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit:
(1) Plays, operas, musicals, or other dramatic works that are not obscene;
(2) Classes, seminars and lectures that are held for serious scientific or educational purposes that are not obscene; or
(3) Exhibitions, performances, expressions or dances that are not obscene.
(b) For purposes of this chapter, any activity is obscene:
(1) Which the average person, applying contemporary standards would find, when considered as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; and
(2) Which explicitly depicts or describes patently offensive representations of:
(A) Ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, 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.
(c) The exemptions found in this section shall apply to first amendment speech or expression and shall not apply to the prohibited sexual conduct described in and prohibited by Section 6.64.070. (Ord. 1645, § 2, 2005; Ord. 1190,, 1994.)