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(1) This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit:

(a) Plays, operas, musicals, dramatic works, or other exhibitions or performances that constitute protected speech under the federal or state constitution and which are not obscene;

(b) Classes, seminars and lectures held for serious scientific or educational purposes;

(c) Conduct of licensed adult entertainers within adult entertainment dance studios operating pursuant to chapter 6.25 SCC; or

(d) The act of breastfeeding or expressing breast milk.

(2) For this chapter, any exhibition, performance, dance or other medium is obscene:

(a) Which the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, when considered as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; and

(b) Which explicitly depicts or describes patently offensive representations or descriptions of

(i) Ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated; or

(ii) Masturbation, fellatio, cunnilingus, bestiality, excretory functions or lewd exhibition of the genitals or genital area; or

(iii) Violent or destructive sexual acts including but not limited to human or animal mutilation, dismemberment, rape or torture; and

(c) Which, when considered as a whole, and in the context in which it is used, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. (Added by Ord. 96-044 § 2, June 24, 1996, Eff date July 6, 1996; Amended by Ord. 09-130, Dec. 9, 2009, Eff date Jan. 7, 2010).