COLJI-Crim. F:246.2

“Obscene” means material or a performance that:

1. the average person, applying contemporary community

standards, would find that taken as a whole appeals to the

prurient interest in sex, and

2. depicts or describes either: patently offensive representations or

descriptions of ultimate sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or

simulated, including sexual intercourse, sodomy, and sexual

bestiality; or patently offensive representations or descriptions

of masturbation, excretory functions, sadism, masochism, lewd

exhibition of the genitals, the male or female genitals in a state

of sexual stimulation or arousal, or covered male genitals in a

discernibly turgid state, and

3. taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or

scientific value.