West Virginia Code § 61-8C-3a

Prohibiting child erotica; penalties
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(a) Any person age 18 or over who knowingly and intentionally produces, possesses, displays
or distributes, in any form, any visual portrayals of minors who are partially clothed, where
the visual portrayals are: (1) Unrelated to the sale of a commercially available legal product;
and (2) used for purely prurient purposes, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be confined in jail for not more than one year or fined not moree than $1,000, or
both confined and fined.
(b) As used in this section only:
(1) "Purely prurient purposes" means for the specific purpose of sexual gratification or
sexual arousal from viewing the visual portrayals prohibited by this section; and
(2) "Commercially available" means for sale to the genaeral public.

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