Wholesale Promotion of Obscenity, C.R.S. 18-7-102(1)(a), charges occur whenever a person, knowing its content and character, wholesale promotes or possesses with intent to wholesale promote any obscene material. To understand this criminal offense more fully, it's important to know what it means to wholesale promote and what is considered “obscene” in Denver, Jefferson County and across Colorado.

Douglas County Obscenity Lawyer: Definition of Wholesale Promote

When someone “wholesale promotes”, it means they manufacture, issue, sell, provide, mail, deliver, transfer, transmit, publish, distribute, circulate, disseminate, or offer or agree to do the same for purpose of resale.

Wholesale Promotion of Obscenity Arapahoe County Lawyer | What is Considered Obscene?

Under C.R.S. 18-7-101, “obscene” in Arapahoe County and across Colorado means material or a performance that:

1. The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest in sex;
   b) Depicts or describes:
   I) Patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including sexual intercourse, sodomy, and sexual bestiality; or
   II) Patently offensive representations of descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions, sadism, masochism, lewd exhibition of the genitals, the male or female genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal, or covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state; and
   c) Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Material such as pornography, X-rated magazines, sexually explicit videos all qualify as obscene material in Colorado. If you sell, transfer or share in some way any of the above material or other obscene material with another person for the purpose of resale, you risk a class 1 misdemeanor charge for Wholesale Promotion of Obscenity. If the person you are sharing the obscene material with is a minor, however, charges increase to a class 6 felony for Wholesale Promotion of Obscenity to a Minor, C.R.S. 18-7-102(1.5)(a). Sex offender registration is also required for a conviction of this charge. A minor is anyone under eighteen years of age.

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