In determining contemporary community standards, the trier of fact may utilize the standards of the community or vicinage from which he comes, but the court, in its discretion, may admit evidence of standards existing outside of such community or vicinage. Material means anything tangible which is capable of being used or adapted to arouse interest, or to affect the human senses, whether through the medium of reading, observation, sound or in any other manner. Obscene is the descriptive word used to modify any material or performance which is an obscene work. Patently offensive means so offensive on its face as to affront current standards of decency.
Performance means any play, motion picture, dance or other exhibition performed before an audience.
Promote means to manufacture, issue, sell, give, provide, lend, mail, deliver, transfer, transmit, publish, distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, exhibit or advertise, or to offer or agree to do the same. Serious value means serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. Standards of decency means community standards of decency. Wholesale promote means to manufacture, issue, sell, provide, mail, deliver, transfer, transmit, publish, distribute, circulate, disseminate or to offer or agree to do the same for purposes of resale. If any of the descriptions or depictions of sexual conduct described in section 274.01 are declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unlawfully included therein because such descriptions or depictions are constitutionally protected or for any other reason, such declaration shall not invalidate this chapter as to other patently offensive sexual conduct included therein.