Advertising sexual remedies.
Minneapolis Code of Ordinances § 385.360
in effect385.360. - Advertising sexual remedies.
(a) By newspaper. No person shall publish or cause to be published any advertisement intended to imply or to be understood that he will restore manly vigor, treat or cure lost manhood, lost power, stricture, gonorrhea, chronic discharges, gleet, varicocele, chancroid, syphilis or private diseases. No person shall advertise any medicine, medicinal preparation, remedy or prescription for any of the ailments or diseases above enumerated. Any owner or managing officer of a newspaper in whose paper shall be printed or published any such advertisement shall be guilty of a violation of this section.
(b) By posters, handbills. No person shall post, stick or affix in any way on any surface in the city any sign, sticker or poster containing any advertisement described in this section, nor shall any person pass out or distribute any handbill, circular, card or object containing any such advertisement or intended to advertise a cure or remedy for any such disease or ailment as herein described. No person shall knowingly permit or allow any advertisement of the character herein described to be posted or affixed in any manner upon any property owned or controlled by him, nor display any advertisement or object of any kind whatsoever intended to advertise a cure, or remedy, or preparation intended for use in treatment for any disease or ailment as herein described.
(c) Exception. The provisions of this section shall not apply to bona fide advertisements of medicinal preparations approved by the Council on Pharmacy of the American Medical Association and published in recognized medical journals and distributed exclusively to medical subscribers or readers. (Code 1960, As Amend., §§ 754.010—754.030)
Source: City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Code of Ordinances, City Charter and Park and Recreation Board Code of Ordinances (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/mn/minneapolis/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=COOR_TIT15OFIS_CH385INGE_385.360ADSEREFetched: 11/2/2026