In order to determine that a work is obscene, the trier of fact must find:. Menu House Minnesota House of Representatives. Minnesota Senate. Joint Departments, Offices, and Commissions. Schedules, Calendars, and Legislative Business. Legislative Committees. Statutes, Laws, and Rules. Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Revisor Menu. Authenticate PDF. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given them: a "Obscene" means that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in sex and depicts or describes in a patently offensive manner sexual conduct and which, taken as a whole, does not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
In order to determine that a work is obscene, the trier of fact must find: 1 that the average person, applying contemporary community standards would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in sex; 2 that the work depicts sexual conduct specifically defined by paragraph b in a patently offensive manner; and 3 that the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
It is unlawful for a person, knowing or with reason to know its content and character, to: a exhibit, sell, print, offer to sell, give away, circulate, publish, distribute or attempt to distribute any obscene material; or b produce, present, participate in, or direct an obscene performance. Second or subsequent violations. Paul, MN
