The agency defines indecent material as "depicting sexual or excretory activities or organs" in terms that are "patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium."

The agency defines the material as "patently offensive," depicting graphic "sexual or excretory activities" or sexual organs.

Normally these are exempt from classification, unless they depict human sexual activity, human genital organs or gross acts of violence, in which case the publishers should submit the game for classification.

The agency broadly defines "indecent" programming as material that is "patently offensive" as measured by contemporary community standards for over-the-air broadcasting and depicts "sexual or excretory activities or organs."

"Material is indecent if, in context, it depicts or describes sexual or excretory organs or activities in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium."

Although the parade is billed as family friendly, costumes depicting sexual organs, paraphernalia, and related themes are common.

Congress has repeatedly tried to pass laws setting a 24-hour ban on programming that depicts sexual activities or organs, for example, but those laws have been overturned by Federal courts.

The commission has defined indecent speech as language that first, in context, depicts or describes sexual or excretory organs or activities.

"Indecent" programming has been broadly defined by the courts as "patently offensive" language or material that depicts "sexual or excretory activities or organs."

The FCC declared the scene indecent "because it depicts sexual organs and excretory organs-specifically an adult woman's buttocks."