San Diego Municipal Code § 33.2001 Figure Studios — Policy

In adopting the following sections, the City Council intends to provide for such regulation as the public interest may require of the operation of figure studios, as hereinafter defined, in order to aid bona fide artists and art students to practice and develop their talents in portraying the human form, and in order to prevent the operation of figure studios as places which appeal primarily to the prurient interests of members of the public. (“Figure Studios— Policy” added 7–12–1962 by O–8679 N.S.)

(a) Studio

(1) Any premises on which there is conducted the business of furnishing
models who pose for the purpose of being photographed in the nude
by persons who pay a fee, or other consideration or compensation, or a
gratuity, for the right or opportunity so to depict the model, or for
admission to, or for permission to remain upon, or as a condition of
remaining upon the premises.

(2) Any premises where there is conducted the business of furnishing or
providing or procuring for a fee or other consideration or
compensation or gratuity, models to be photographed in the nude.

(b) Model Any person, male or female, who poses to be photographed in the
nude.

(c) Nude shall include:

(1) Completely without clothing;

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(2) With any pubic area exposed; or with the pubic area covered in such a
manner that the private parts are visible or the form thereof
discernible;

(3) With the breasts exposed by a female so that the nipples thereof are
exposed.
(Amended 10–25–1962 by O–8738 N.S.)