Article 200 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE EIGHT. CRIMES AGAINST THE FREE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY. · CHAPTER I. Corruption of Persons Under Eighteen Years of Age or of Persons who do not have the Capacity to understand the Meaning of the Act or of Persons who do not have the Capacity to Resist it.
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
To whoever trades, distributes, exhibits, circulates or offers, to minors under eighteen years of age, books, writings, recordings, films, photographs, printed advertisements, images or objects, of pornographic character, real or simulated, whether physically, or through any means, six months to five years of imprisonment and three hundred to five hundred days fine shall be imposed.
That which signifies or has as its purpose scientific, artistic or technical dissemination, or, where applicable, sexual education, education about the reproductive function, the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and adolescent pregnancy, shall not be understood as pornographic or harmful material, as long as they are approved by the competent authority.