(A) A person commits obscenity when, with knowledge of the nature or content thereof, or recklessly failing to exercise reasonable inspection which would have disclosed the nature or content thereof, he or she:
(1) Sells, delivers, or provides, or offers or agrees to sell, deliver or provide any obscene writing, picture, record or other representation or embodiment of the obscene;
(2) Presents or directs an obscene play, dance or other performance or participates directly in that portion thereof which makes it obscene;
(3) Publishes, exhibits or otherwise makes available anything obscene;
(4) Performs an obscene act or otherwise presents an obscene exhibition of his or her body for gain;
(5) Creates, buys, procures or possesses obscene matter or material with intent to disseminate it in violation of this section, or of the penal laws or regulations of any other jurisdiction; or
(6) Advertises or otherwise promotes the sale of material represented or held out by him or her to be obscene, whether or not it is obscene.
(B) Any material or performance is
OBSCENE if:
(1) The average person, applying contemporary adult community standards, would find that, taken as a whole, it appeals to the prurient interest;
(2) The average person, applying contemporary adult community standards, would find that it depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, ultimate sexual acts or sadomasochistic sexual acts, whether normal or perverted, actual or simulated, or masturbation, excretory functions or lewd exhibition of the genitals; and
(3) Taken as a whole, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
(720 ILCS 5/11-20)