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H. B. No. 239 As IntroducedAs Introduced
127th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2007-2008 |
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Cosponsors:
Representatives McGregor, J., Evans, Goodwin, Okey, Seitz, Aslanides, Stebelton, Combs, Fessler
A BILL
To amend section 2907.01 of the Revised Code to clarify the definition of "harmful to juveniles."
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 2907.01 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2907.01. As used in sections 2907.01 to 2907.38 of
the
Revised Code:
(A) "Sexual conduct" means vaginal intercourse between a
male and female; anal intercourse, fellatio, and
cunnilingus
between persons regardless of sex; and, without privilege to do
so, the insertion, however slight, of any part of the body or any
instrument, apparatus, or other object
into the vaginal or anal
opening of another. Penetration, however slight, is
sufficient to
complete vaginal or anal intercourse.
(B) "Sexual contact" means any touching of an erogenous
zone
of another, including without limitation the thigh,
genitals,
buttock, pubic region, or, if the person is a female, a
breast,
for the purpose of sexually arousing or gratifying either
person.
(C) "Sexual activity" means sexual conduct or sexual
contact, or both.
(D) "Prostitute" means a male or female who promiscuously
engages in sexual activity for hire, regardless of whether the
hire is paid to the prostitute or to another.
(E)
"Harmful to
juveniles"
means that quality of any material or performance
describing or representing nudity, sexual conduct, sexual
excitement, or sado-masochistic abuse in any form to which all of
the
following apply:
(1)
The material or performance, when
considered as a whole, appeals to the a juvenile's prurient interest
in sex of
juveniles.
(2)
The material or performance is patently offensive to
prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with
respect to what is suitable for juveniles.
(3) The material or performance, when considered as a whole,
lacks serious literary, artistic, political, and scientific value
for juveniles.
(F) When considered as a whole, and judged with reference
to
ordinary adults or, if it is designed for sexual deviates or
other
specially susceptible group, judged with reference to that
group,
any material or performance is "obscene" if any of the
following
apply:
(1) Its dominant appeal is to prurient interest;
(2) Its dominant tendency is to arouse lust by displaying
or
depicting sexual activity, masturbation, sexual excitement, or
nudity in a way that tends to represent human beings as mere
objects of sexual appetite;
(3) Its dominant tendency is to arouse lust by displaying
or
depicting bestiality or extreme or bizarre violence, cruelty,
or
brutality;
(4) Its dominant tendency is to appeal to scatological
interest by displaying or depicting human bodily functions of
elimination in a way that inspires disgust or revulsion in
persons
with ordinary sensibilities, without serving any genuine
scientific, educational, sociological, moral, or artistic
purpose;
(5) It contains a series of displays or descriptions of
sexual activity, masturbation, sexual excitement, nudity,
bestiality, extreme or bizarre violence, cruelty, or brutality,
or
human bodily functions of elimination, the cumulative effect
of
which is a dominant tendency to appeal to prurient or
scatological
interest, when the appeal to such an interest is
primarily for its
own sake or for commercial exploitation, rather
than primarily for
a genuine scientific, educational,
sociological, moral, or
artistic purpose.
(G) "Sexual excitement" means the condition of human male
or
female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or
arousal.
(H) "Nudity" means the showing, representation, or
depiction
of human male or female genitals, pubic area, or
buttocks with
less than a full, opaque covering, or of a female
breast with less
than a full, opaque covering of any portion
thereof below the top
of the nipple, or of covered male genitals
in a discernibly turgid
state.
(I) "Juvenile" means an unmarried person under the age of
eighteen.
(J) "Material" means
any book, magazine,
newspaper,
pamphlet, poster, print, picture, figure, image,
description,
motion picture film, phonographic record, or tape, or
other
tangible thing capable of arousing interest through sight,
sound,
or touch
and includes an image or text appearing on a
computer
monitor,
television
screen, liquid crystal display, or
similar
display
device or an image or text
recorded on a computer
hard
disk, computer
floppy disk, compact
disk, magnetic tape, or
similar data
storage
device.
(K) "Performance" means any motion picture, preview,
trailer, play, show, skit, dance, or other exhibition performed
before an audience.
(L) "Spouse" means a person married to an offender at the
time of an alleged offense, except that such person shall not be
considered the spouse when any of the following apply:
(1) When the parties have entered into a written
separation
agreement authorized by section 3103.06 of the Revised
Code;
(2) During the pendency of an action between the parties
for
annulment, divorce, dissolution of marriage, or legal
separation;
(3) In the case of an action for legal separation, after
the
effective date of the judgment for legal separation.
(M) "Minor" means a person under the age of eighteen.
(N) "Mental health client or patient" has the same meaning as
in section 2305.51 of the Revised Code.
(O) "Mental health professional" has the same meaning as in
section 2305.115 of the Revised Code.
(P) "Sado-masochistic abuse" means flagellation or torture by
or upon a person or the condition of being fettered, bound, or
otherwise
physically restrained.
Section 2. That existing section 2907.01 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.
Section 3. Section 2907.01 of the Revised Code is presented in
this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am. Sub. H.B. 23 and Am. Sub. H.B. 95 of
the 126th General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the
principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised
Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of
simultaneous operation, finds that the composite is the resulting
version of the section in effect prior to the effective date of
the section as presented in this act.
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