Definición de material obsceno y conducta sexual en Minnesota

Explicación Simple

Esta ley dice qué cosas se consideran obscenas, como ciertos videos o imágenes que hablan de sexo de forma ofensiva. Para que algo sea considerado obsceno, debe no tener valor artístico o educativo y causar interés sexual de manera exagerada.

Es como cuando una película es tan gráfica en sus escenas sexuales que no se puede disfrutar de la historia. Si solo te muestra eso y no tiene un buen mensaje, podría ser considerada obscena.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan decide crear un video que muestra actos sexuales sin ninguna historia o mensaje importante. Si la mayoría de la gente en su comunidad considera que ese video es solo para provocar y no tiene valor, podría ser considerado obsceno según esta ley.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

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. (b) "Sexual conduct" means any of the following: (1) An act of sexual intercourse, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including genital-genital, anal-genital, or oral-genital intercourse, whether between human beings or between a human being and an animal. (2) Sadomasochistic abuse, meaning flagellation or torture by or upon a person who is nude or clad in undergarments or in a sexually revealing costume or the condition of being fettered, bound, or otherwise physically restricted on the part of one so clothed or who is nude. (3) Masturbation, excretory functions, or lewd exhibitions of the genitals including any explicit, close-up representation of a human genital organ. (4) Physical contact or simulated physical contact with the clothed or unclothed pubic areas or buttocks of a human male or female, or the breasts of the female, whether alone or between members of the same or opposite sex or between humans and animals in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or gratificat