944.21
Obscene material or performance.
The
legislature intends that the authority to prosecute violations of
this section shall be used primarily to combat the obscenity industry
and shall never be used for harassment or censorship purposes against
materials or performances having serious artistic, literary,
political, educational or scientific value. The legislature further
intends that the enforcement of this section shall be consistent with
the first amendment to the U.S. constitution, article I, section 3,
of the Wisconsin constitution and the compelling state interest in
protecting the free flow of ideas.
"Community" means
this state.
Obscene material" means a writing, picture, sound
recording or film which: The average person, applying
contemporary community standards, would find appeals to the prurient
interest if taken as a whole; under contemporary community standards,
describes or shows sexual conduct in a patently offensive way; and
lacks serious literary, artistic, political,
educational or scientific value, if taken as a whole.
"Sexual conduct"
means the commission of any of the following: sexual intercourse,
sodomy, bestiality, necrophilia, human excretion, masturbation,
sadism, masochism, fellatio, cunnilingus or lewd exhibition of human
genitals.