[Prior Code 16-107]
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them:
Means obscenity which:
Means having general knowledge of, reason to know, a belief or ground for belief which warrants further inspection or inquiry concerning:
The character and content of any material which is reasonably susceptible of examination by the defendant;
If the offense involves conduct with respect to a minor, the age of the minor, but the defendant does not act knowingly with respect to the age of a minor if he or she shows as an affirmative defense that he or she was honestly mistaken as to such age after making a reasonable and bona fide attempt to ascertain the true age of the minor.
Means any physical object used as a means of presenting or communicating information, knowledge, sensation, image or emotion to or through the visual, aural, tactile or olfactory senses of a human being.
Means a person who has not reached his or her eighteenth birthday.
Means that which, considered as a whole, predominantly appeals to prurient interests, i.e., a lustful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, excretion, sadism, masochism or sadomasochistic abuse, and which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in describing, portraying or dealing with such matters and is utterly without redeeming social value.
Includes any person who has a financial interest in an activity or thing entitling him or her to participate in the promotion, management or proceeds of the activity or thing. It does not include a person whose connection with the activity entitles him or her only to reasonable salary or wages for services actually rendered.
Means the presentation or showing to another person or for recording by any means of:
Of a thing shall be judged by reference to the average adult in the community as a whole, except that where the thing appears to be designed for, or is made available to, minors, they shall be judged with reference to the average minor in the age group for which the thing appears to be designed or to which it is made available.
Means to produce, direct, perform in, manufacture, issue, sell, give, provide lend, mail, deliver, transfer, publish, distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, exhibit, advertise for pecuniary gain or offer or agree to do any of these things for pecuniary gain.