Deviant sexual intercourse

Deviant sexual intercourse is, in some U.S. states, a legal term for "any act of sexual gratification involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another, anus to mouth or involving invasion of the anus or vagina of one person by a foreign object manipulated by another person".[1]

Typically, the act itself (whether consensual or not) used to be a crime, but the term is now used to describe forcible or otherwise involuntary acts that differ from the crime of rape (sometimes deviant sexual intercourse is included in the definition of rape), in the way that indecent assault might be used in other states and countries. In the United States, the term has replaced sodomy in the criminal codes of some states, including Texas[2] and Kentucky.[1]

The consensual practice of anal or oral sex was made legal by the 2004 U.S. Supreme Court case of Lawrence v. Texas.

References

  1. "Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs". Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs. Archived from the original on 2009-02-10. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  2. Bartee, Alice Fleetwood (2005). Privacy Rights: Cases Lost and Causes Won Before the Supreme Court. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 210. Retrieved 2009-01-21.


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