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BDSM and The Law
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This is NOT legal advice.
If you live in Wyoming ask your Legislator
to change these laws
An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in-meat freezer!
Age of Consent in Wyoming is 18
-4-101.
Prostitution; penalties.
A
person who knowingly or intentionally performs or permits, or offers or agrees
to perform or permit an act of sexual intrusion, as defined by W.S.
6-2-301(a)(vii), for money or other property commits prostitution which is a
misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, a fine
of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), or both.
6-4-102.
Soliciting an act of prostitution; penalties.
A
person is guilty of soliciting an act of prostitution if, with the intent that
an act of sexual intrusion as defined by W.S. 6-2-301(a)(vii) be committed, that
person knowingly or intentionally pays, or offers or agrees to pay money or
other property to another person under circumstances strongly corroborative of
the intention that an act of prostitution be committed. Soliciting an act of
prostitution is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six
(6) months, a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), or
both.
6-4-103.
Promoting prostitution; penalties.
(a)
A person commits a felony if he:
(i)
Knowingly or intentionally
entices or compels another person to become a prostitute;
(ii)
Knowingly or intentionally
procures, or offers or agrees to procure, a person for another person for the
purpose of prostitution;
(iii)
Having control over the use of a
place, knowingly or intentionally permits another person to use the place for
prostitution; or
(iv)
Receives money or other property
from a prostitute, without lawful consideration, knowing it was earned in whole
or in part from prostitution.
(b)
The felony defined by this
section is punishable by imprisonment for not more than three (3) years, a fine
of not more than three thousand dollars ($3,000.00), or both. However, the crime
is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, a fine
of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or both, under paragraph (i)
of subsection (a) of this section if the person enticed or compelled is under
eighteen (18) years of age.
6-4-401. Bigamy;
penalties; defense.
(a)
A person commits bigamy if,
being married and knowing that his spouse is alive, he marries again.
(b)
It is a defense that the accused
person reasonably believed that he was eligible to remarry.
(c)
Bigamy is a felony punishable by
imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, a fine of not more than five
thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or both.
OBSCENITY
6-4-301. Definitions.
(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Disseminate" means to sell, distribute, deliver,
provide, exhibit or otherwise make available to another;
(ii) "Material" includes any form of human expression
or communication intended for, or capable of, visual, auditory or sensory
perception;
(iii) "Obscene" is material which the average person
would find:
(A) Applying contemporary community standards, taken as a whole,
appeals to the prurient interest;
(B) Applying contemporary community standards, depicts or
describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way; and
(C) Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic,
political or scientific value.
(iv) "Produce or reproduce" means to bring into being
regardless of the process or means employed. Undeveloped photographs, films,
molds, casts, printing plates and like articles may be obscene notwithstanding
that further processing or other acts are necessary to make the obscenity patent
or to disseminate or exhibit the obscene material;
(v) "Sexual conduct" means:
(A) Patently offensive representations or descriptions of
ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated;
(B) Sado-masochistic abuse; or
(C) Patently offensive representations or descriptions of
masturbation, excretory functions or lewd exhibitions of the genitals.
6-4-302. Promoting obscenity; penalties.
(a) A person commits the crime of promoting obscenity if he:
(i) Produces or reproduces obscene material with the intent of
disseminating it;
(ii) Possesses obscene material with the intent of disseminating
it; or
(iii) Knowingly disseminates obscene material.
(b) Promoting obscenity is a misdemeanor punishable upon
conviction as follows:
(i) If to an adult, by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars
($1,000.00) or by imprisonment for not to exceed one (1) year, or both;
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