Under the "Protect Tennessee Minors Act," "content harmful to minors" means either of the following, when taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value:  Text, audio, imagery, or video the average person, applying contemporary community standards and taking the material as a whole and with respect to minors of any age, would find sexually explicit and harmful or inappropriate for minors or designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest; or  Text, audio, imagery, or video that exploits, is devoted to, or principally consists of an actual, simulated, or animated display or depiction of any of the following: (i) a human or fictitious character's pubic hair, vulva, vagina, penis, testicles, anus, or nipple, (ii) touching, caressing, fondling, or other sexual stimulation of a fictitious character or human nipples, breasts, buttocks, anuses, or genitals, or (iii) sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation, excretory functions, exhibitions, or any other sexual act. This bill removes the definition completely.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 39-17-912