Is masturbation a crime in public?

Legal analysis: masturbation in public does not constitute a crime. It is an illegal act, and people should bear legal responsibility. The public security organs will impose administrative penalties on them according to the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment. Although it is not a crime, this behavior has aroused great indignation among people around it, and it is also a violation of social morality. Whoever makes, copies, publishes, sells or disseminates obscene articles for profit shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law.

Article 3 If a crime is expressly stipulated by law, it shall be convicted and punished according to law; If the law does not clearly stipulate that it is a criminal act, it shall not be convicted and punished.

Article 363 Whoever makes, copies, publishes, sells or disseminates obscene articles for profit shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated. Whoever provides a book number for others and publishes obscene books and periodicals shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or only be fined; Whoever knowingly publishes obscene books and periodicals and provides the ISBN shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.