Definiciones sobre material perjudicial para menores en Arizona

Explicación Simple

Esta ley explica qué tipos de imágenes o historias son consideradas dañinas para los menores. Se refiere a cosas que muestran desnudez o actos sexuales de una manera que no es adecuada para ellos.

Es como cuando en una película familiar, se decide no mostrar ciertas escenas porque podrían resultar incómodas para los niños. La ley busca proteger a los menores de cosas que no deberían ver.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan, un adolescente de 15 años, encuentra una revista en la casa de su amigo que tiene fotos explícitas. Según esta ley, esa revista sería considerada dañina para menores porque muestra contenido sexual de manera ofensiva y no educativa.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

13-3501 . Definitions In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Harmful to minors" means that quality of any description or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual activity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse, when both: (a) To the average adult applying contemporary state standards with respect to what is suitable for minors, it both: (i) Appeals to the prurient interest, when taken as a whole. In order for an item as a whole to be found or intended to have an appeal to the prurient interest, it is not necessary that the item be successful in arousing or exciting any particular form of prurient interest either in the hypothetical average person, in a member of its intended and probable recipient group or in the trier of fact. (ii) Portrays the description or representation in a patently offensive way. (b) Taken as a whole does not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors. 2. "Item" means any material or performance which depicts or describes sexual activity and includes any book, leaflet, pamphlet, magazine, booklet, picture, drawing, photograph, film, negative, slide, motion picture, figure, object, article, novelty device, recording, transcription, live or recorded telephone message or other similar items whether tangible or intangible and including any performance, exhibition, transmission or dissemination of any of the above. An item also includes a live performance or exhibition which depicts sexual activity to the public or an audience of one or more persons. An item is obscene within the meaning of this chapter when all of the following apply: (a) The average person, applying contemporary state standards, would find that the item, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient in