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Title 13 — PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE›Division 3 — OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC DECENCY

Los Angeles County Municipal Code Ch. 13.17 Pornography and Obscene Matter

Los Angeles County Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Los Angeles County

Cite as: Los Angeles County Municipal Code Chapter 13.17 · Text as of 2026-10-04

13.17.010 - Obscene matter defined.

"Obscene matter" means matter that the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest, and is material that depicts or describes in a patently offensive way, explicit sexual conduct of a specifically defined nature, namely: The actual or simulated representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, whether normal or perverted, such as coitus, fellatio, cunnilingus, anilingus, pederasty, coprophagy, bestiality and the like, or of masturbation, excretory functions, and lewd genital exhibition; and that the material, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

(Ord. 85-0121 § 1, 1985.)

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