Oklahoma § 21-1024.1 - See the following versions:
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§ 21-1024.1. See the following versions:
OS 21-1024.1v1 (HB 3936, Laws 2024, c. 59, 14)
OS 21-1024.1v2 (SB 53, Laws 2025, c. 29, § 4)
§21-1024.1v1. Definitions.
A. As used in Sections 1021, 1021.1 through 1021.4, Sections
1022 through 1024, and Sections 1040.8 through 1040.24 of this
title, "child sexual abuse material" means and includes any visual
depiction or individual image stored or contained in any format on
any medium including, but not limited to, film, motion picture,
videotape, photograph, negative, undeveloped film, slide,
photographic product, reproduction of a photographic product, play
or performance wherein a minor under the age of eighteen (18) years
is engaged in any act with a person, other than his or her spouse,
of sexual intercourse which is normal or perverted, in any act of
anal sodomy, in any act of sexual activity with an animal, in any
act of sadomasochistic abuse including, but not limited to,
flagellation or torture, or the condition of being fettered, bound
or otherwise physically restrained in the context of sexual conduct,
in any act of fellatio or cunnilingus, in any act of excretion in
the context of sexual conduct, in any lewd exhibition of the
uncovered genitals in the context of masturbation or other sexual
conduct, or where the lewd exhibition of the uncovered genitals,
buttocks or, if such minor is a female, the breast, has the purpose
of sexual stimulation of the viewer, or wherein a person under the
age of eighteen (18) years observes such acts or exhibitions. Each
visual depiction or individual image shall constitute a separate
item and multiple copies of the same identical material shall each
be counted as a separate item.
B. As used in Sections 1021 through 1024.4 and Sections 1040.8
through 1040.24 of this title:
1. "Obscene material" means and includes any representation,
performance, depiction or description of sexual conduct, whether in
any form or on any medium including still photographs, undeveloped
photographs, motion pictures, undeveloped film, videotape, optical,
magnetic or solid-state storage, CD or DVD, or a purely photographic
product or a reproduction of such product in any book, pamphlet,
magazine, or other publication or electronic or photo-optical
format, if said items contain the following elements:
a.
depictions or descriptions of sexual conduct which are
patently offensive as found by the average person
applying contemporary community standards,
b.
taken as a whole, have as the dominant theme an appeal
to prurient interest in sex as found by the average
person applying contemporary community standards, and
c.
a reasonable person would find the material or
performance taken as a whole lacks serious literary,
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artistic, educational, political, or scientific
purposes or value.
The standard for obscenity applied in this section shall not apply
to child sexual abuse material;
2. "Performance" means and includes any display, live or
recorded, in any form or medium;
3. "Sexual conduct" means and includes any of the following:
a.
acts of sexual intercourse including any intercourse
which is normal or perverted, actual or simulated,
b.
acts of deviate sexual conduct, including oral and
anal sodomy,
c.
acts of masturbation,
d.
acts of sadomasochistic abuse including but not
limited to:
(1) flagellation or torture by or upon any person who
is nude or clad in undergarments or in a costume
which is of a revealing nature, or
(2) the condition of being fettered, bound, or
otherwise physically restrained on the part of
one who is nude or so clothed,
e.
acts of excretion in a sexual context, or
f.
acts of exhibiting human genitals or pubic areas; and
4. "Explicit child sexual abuse material" means material which
a law enforcement officer can immediately identify upon first
viewing without hesitation as child sexual abuse material.
The types of sexual conduct described in paragraph 3 of this
subsection are intended to include situations when, if appropriate
to the type of conduct, the conduct is performed alone or between
members of the same or opposite sex or between humans and animals in
an act of apparent sexual stimulation or gratification.
Added by Laws 1981, c. 146, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1981. Amended by Laws
1984, c. 91, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1984; Laws 1996, c. 37, § 7, eff.
Nov. 1, 1996; Laws 2000, c. 208, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2009,
c. 210, § 1, emerg. eff. May 19, 2009; Laws 2009, c. 457, § 2, eff.
July 1, 2009; Laws 2012, c. 115, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2012; Laws 2024,
c. 59, § 14, eff. Nov. 1, 2024.
§21-1024.1v2. Definitions.
A. As used in Sections 1021, 1021.1 through 1021.4, Sections
1022, 1023, and Sections 1040.8 through 1040.24 of this title,
“child sexual abuse material” means:
1. Any visual depiction of a child engaged in any act of
sexually explicit conduct;
2. Any visual depiction of a child that has been adapted,
altered, or modified so that the child depicted appears to be
engaged in any act of sexually explicit conduct; or
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3. Any visual depiction that appears to be a child, regardless
of whether the image is a depiction of an actual child, a computergenerated image, or an image altered to appear to be a child,
engaged in any act of sexually explicit conduct, and such visual
depiction is obscene.
B. Each visual depiction or individual image of child
pornography shall constitute a separate item and act.
C. As used in Sections 1021 through 1024.4 and Sections 1040.8
through 1040.24 of this title:
1. “Child” means a person under eighteen (18) years of age;
2. “Obscene” means any performance or depiction, in any form or
on any medium, if the material when taken as a whole:
a.
appeals to the prurient interest in sex as determined
by the average person applying the contemporary
standards of their community,
b.
depicts, represents, or displays sexually explicit
conduct in a patently offensive way, and
c.
a reasonable person would find the material or
performance lacks serious literary, artistic,
educational, political, or scientific value;
3. “Performance” means any display, live, recorded, or
transmitted, in any form or medium;
4. “Sexually explicit conduct” means any of the following
whether actual or simulated:
a.
acts of sexual intercourse,
b.
acts of oral and anal sodomy,
c.
acts of masturbation,
d.
acts of sexual activity with an animal,
e.
acts of sadomasochism including:
(1) flagellation or torture by or upon any person who
is nude or clad in undergarments or in a costume
which is of a revealing nature, or
(2) the condition of being fettered, bound, or
otherwise physically restrained on the part of
one who is nude or so clothed,
f.
acts of excretion in a sexual context, or
g.
exhibiting genitalia, breast, or pubic area for the
purpose of the sexual stimulation of the viewer;
5. “Explicit child sexual abuse material” means material which
a law enforcement officer can immediately identify as child sexual
abuse material; and
6. “Visual depiction” means any depiction, picture, movie,
performance, or image displayed, stored, shared, or transmitted in
any format and on any medium including data that is capable of being
converted into a depiction, picture, movie, performance, or image.
Added by Laws 1981, c. 146, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1981. Amended by Laws
1984, c. 91, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1984; Laws 1996, c. 37, § 7, eff.
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Nov. 1, 1996; Laws 2000, c. 208, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2009,
c. 210, § 1, emerg. eff. May 19, 2009; Laws 2009, c. 457, § 2, eff.
July 1, 2009; Laws 2012, c. 115, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2012; Laws 2024,
c. 103, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2024; Laws 2025, c. 29, § 4, eff. Nov. 1,
2025.
Source: official Oklahoma text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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