Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 167 § 167.060 — Definitions for ORS 167.060 to 167.095
Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 167 ·
Oregon Code § 167.060·Enacted ·Last updated March 01, 2026
Statute Text
Definitions for ORS 167.060 to 167.095.
As used in ORS 167.060 to 167.095, unless the context
requires otherwise:
(1) Advertising
purposes means purposes of propagandizing in connection with the commercial
sale of a product or type of product, the commercial offering of a service, or
the commercial exhibition of an entertainment.
(2) Displays
publicly means the exposing, placing, posting, exhibiting, or in any fashion
displaying in any location, whether public or private, an item in such a manner
that it may be readily seen and its content or character distinguished by
normal unaided vision viewing it from a public thoroughfare, depot or vehicle.
(3) Furnishes
means to sell, give, rent, loan or otherwise provide.
(4) Minor means
an unmarried person under 18 years of age.
(5) Nudity
means uncovered, or less than opaquely covered, post-pubertal human genitals,
pubic areas, the post-pubertal human female breast below a point immediately
above the top of the areola, or the covered human male genitals in a
discernibly turgid state. For purposes of this definition, a female breast is
considered uncovered if the nipple only or the nipple and areola only are
covered.
(6) Obscene
performance means a play, motion picture, dance, show or other presentation,
whether pictured, animated or live, performed before an audience and which in
whole or in part depicts or reveals nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement
or sadomasochistic abuse, or which includes obscenities or explicit verbal
descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual conduct.
(7) Obscenities
means those slang words currently generally rejected for regular use in mixed
society, that are used to refer to genitals, female breasts, sexual conduct or
excretory functions or products, either that have no other meaning or that in
context are clearly used for their bodily, sexual or excretory meaning.
(8) Public
thoroughfare, depot or vehicle means any street, highway, park, depot or
transportation platform, or other place, whether indoors or out, or any vehicle
for public transportation, owned or operated by government, either directly or
through a public corporation or authority, or owned or operated by any agency
of public transportation that is designed for the use, enjoyment or
transportation of the general public.
(9) Sadomasochistic
abuse means flagellation or torture by or upon a person who is nude or clad in
undergarments or in revealing or bizarre costume, or the condition of being
fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained on the part of one so
clothed.
(10) Sexual
conduct means human masturbation, sexual intercourse, or any touching of the
genitals, pubic areas or buttocks of the human male or female, or the breasts
of the female, whether alone or between members of the same or opposite sex or
between humans and animals in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or
gratification.
(11) Sexual
excitement means the condition of human male or female genitals or the breasts
of the female when in a state of sexual stimulation, or the sensual experiences
of humans engaging in or witnessing sexual conduct or nudity. [1971 c.743 §255]
Plain English Explanation
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Key Points
01Part of Oregon statutory law
02Referenced as Oregon Code § 167.060
03Subject to legislative amendments
04Consult a licensed attorney for application to specific cases
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