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Miss. Code Ann. § 97-29-103

Definitions

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc. (1985)

Most recently applied in Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc. (June 1985)

Laws, 1983, ch. 498, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 1983.

(1) Material or performance is obscene if: To the average person, applying contemporary community standards, taken as a whole, it appeals to the prurient interest, that is, a lustful, erotic, shameful, or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion; and

(2) The material taken as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value; and

(3) The material depicts or describes in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined in subparagraphs (i) through (v) below: Acts of sexual intercourse, heterosexual or homosexual, normal or perverted, actual or simulated;

(4) Acts of masturbation;

(5) Acts involving excretory functions or lewd exhibition of the genitals;

(6) Acts of bestiality or the fondling of sex organs of animals; or

(7) Sexual acts of flagellation, torture or other violence indicating a sadomasochistic sexual relationship.

(8) Undeveloped photographs, molds, printing plates and the like shall be deemed obscene material, notwithstanding that processing or other acts may be required to make the obscenity patent or to distribute it.

(9) “Performance” means a play, motion picture, dance or other exhibition performed before an audience.

(10) “Patently offensive” means so offensive on its face as to affront current community standards of decency.

(11) “Wholesale distributes” means to distribute for the purpose of resale.

(12) “Material” means any book, magazine, newspaper, advertisement, pamphlet, poster, print, picture, figure, image, drawing, description, motion picture film, phonographic record, recording tape, video tape, or other tangible thing producing, reproducing or capable of producing or reproducing an image, picture, sound or sensation through sight, sound or touch, but it does not include an actual three-dimensional sexual device as defined in Section 97-29-105.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.