§ 42-301. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Obscene means that which, considered as a whole, has as its dominant theme or purpose an appeal to the prurient interest in sex, that is, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, excretory functions or products thereof or sadomasochistic abuse, and which goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such matters and which, taken as a whole, does not have serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

(Code 1992, § 15-136)

Cross reference— Definitions generally, § 1-2.

State Law reference— Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 18.2-372.

(Code 1992, § 15-136)

State law reference

Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 18.2-372.

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.