Harmful to minors

Under the provisions of the Child Online Protection Act (P.L. 105-277), the term harmful to minors is defined any "communication. . . that is obscene or that:


 * 1) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, taking the material as a whole and with respect to minors, is designed to appeal to, or is designed to pander to, the prurient interest;
 * 2) depicts, describes, or represents, in a manner patently offensive with respect to minors, an actual or simulated sexual act or sexual contact, an actual or simulated normal or perverted sexual act, or a lewd exhibition of the genitals or post-pubescent female breast; and
 * 3) taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic political, or scientific value for minors."