| | | | The crimeof sexual acts with children up to the age of 18,including touching of private parts, exposure ofgenitalia, taking of pornographic pictures, rape,inducement of sexual acts with the molester or withother children and variations of these acts bypedophiles. Molestation also applies to incest by arelative with a minor family member and any unwantedsexual acts with adults short of rape.
| | 1) n. thecrime of sexual intercourse (with actual penetrationof a woman's vagina with the man's penis) withoutconsent and accomplished through force, threat ofviolence or intimidation (such as a threat to harm awoman's child, husband or boyfriend). Whatconstitutes lack of consent usually includes saying"no" or being too drunk or drug-influencedfor the woman to be able to either resist orconsent, but a recent Pennsylvania case ruled that awoman must do more than say "no" on thebizarre theory that "no" does not alwaysmean "don't," but a flirtatious come-on."Date rape" involves rape by anacquaintance who refuses to stop when told to. Defense attorneys often argue that there had to bephysical resistance, but the modern view is thatfear of harm and the relative strengths of the manand the woman are obvious deterrents to a womanfighting back. Any sexual intercourse with a childis rape and in most states sexual relations evenwith consent involving a girl 14 to 18 (with somevariation on ages in a few states) is"statutory rape," on the basis that thefemale is unable to give consent. 2) v. to havesexual intercourse with a female without her consentthrough force, violence, threat or intimidation, orwith a girl under age. Technically, a woman can becharged with rape by assisting a man in the rape ofanother woman. Dissatisfied with the typicalprosecution of rape cases (in which the defensehumiliates the accuser, and prosecutors are unableor unwilling to protect the woman from suchtactics), women have been suing for civil damagesfor the physical and emotional damage caused by therape, although too often the perpetrator has nofunds. Protection services for rape victims havebeen developed by both public and private agencies.On the other side of the coin, there is the concernof law enforcement and prosecutors that women whoseadvances have been rejected by a man, or who havebeen caught in the act of consensual sexualintercourse may falsely cry "rape."
| | 1a: the infliction of sexual contact upon aperson by forcible compulsion b:the engaging in sexual contact with a person who isbelow a specified age or who is incapable of givingconsent because of age or mental or physicalincapacity 2:the crime of engaging in or inflicting sexual abuse
| | Sexualcontact usu. that is forced upon a person withoutconsent or inflicted upon a person who is incapableof giving consent (as because of age or physical ormental incapacity) or who places the assailant (as adoctor) in a position of trust
(see also rape)
Note: Sexual assault in its most serious forms(often classified as first degree sexual assault)involves nonconsensual sexual penetration. In itsless serious forms it may be the equivalent ofstatutory rape.
| | Anglo-Frenchsodomie sexual intercourse between men,from Old French, from Late Latin SodomaSodom, from the supposed homosexual practices of themen of the city in Genesis 19:1-11 :the crime of oral or anal sexual contact orpenetration between persons or of sexual intercoursebetween a person and an animal esp
: the crime of forcing anotherperson to perform oral or anal sex
| | n. anobsession with children as sex objects. Overt acts,including taking sexually explicit photographs,molesting children and exposing one's genitalia tochildren, are all crimes. The problem with thesecrimes is that pedophilia is also treated as amental illness, and the pedophile is often releasedonly to repeat the crimes or escalate the activityto the level of murder.
| | n. picturesand/or writings of sexual activity intended solelyto excite lascivious feelings of a particularlyblatant and aberrational kind, such as actsinvolving children, animals, orgies, and all typesof sexual intercourse. The printing, publication,sale and distribution of "hard core"pornography is either a felony or misdemeanor inmost states. Since determining what is pornographyand what is "soft core" and "hardcore" are subjective questions to judges,juries and law enforcement officials, it isdifficult to define, since the law cases cannotprint examples for the courts to follow.
| | adj., adv.a highly subjective reference to material or actswhich display or describe sexual activity in amanner appealing only to "prurientinterest," with no legitimate artistic,literary or scientific purpose. Pictures, writings,film or public acts which are found to be obsceneare not protected by the free speech guarantee ofthe First Amendment. However, the courts have haddifficulty making a clear non-subjective definitionsince "one person's obscenity is anotherperson's art," or, as one Supreme Court Justicestated, "I can't define it, but I know it whenI see it."
| | n. forciblesexual intercourse by a male acquaintance of awoman, during a voluntary social engagement in whichthe woman did not intend to submit to the sexualadvances and resisted the acts by verbal refusals,denials or pleas to stop, and/or physicalresistance. The fact that the parties knew eachother or that the woman willingly accompanied theman are not legal defenses to a charge of rape,although one Pennsylvania decision ruled that therehad to be some actual physical resistance.
| | n. sexualintercourse with a female below the legal age ofconsent but above the age of a child, even if thefemale gave her consent, did not resist and/ormutually participated. In all but three states theage of consent is 18, and the age above which thefemale is no longer a child varies, although 14 iscommon. The theory of statutory rape is that thegirl is incapable of giving consent, althoughmarriage with a parent's consent is possible in manystates at ages as low as 14. Intercourse with afemale child (below 14 or whatever the state lawprovides) is rape, which is a felony. Increasinglystatutory rape is not charged when there is clearconsent by the female, particularly when the girlwill not cooperate in a prosecution. Controversycontinues over what constitutes"resistance" or "consent,"particularly when some men insist a woman who said"no" really meant "yes."
| | adj., adv.references to conduct which includes people livingtogether who are known not to be married,entertainment which aims at arousing the libido orprimarily sexual sensation, open solicitation forprostitution or indecent exposure of genitalia(which is itself a crime). Due to the tendency ofjudges to be overly careful in writing about moraland/or sexual matters the definitions have beencloaked in old-fashioned modesty. Today the termusually applies to pornography, prostitution andindecent acts.
| | n. thecrime of displaying one's genitalia to one or moreother people in a public place, usually with theapparent intent to shock the unsuspecting viewer andgive the exposer a sexual charge.
| | n. theprofession of performing sexual acts for money.Prostitution is a crime throughout the UnitedStates, except for a few counties in the state ofNevada, where it is allowed in licensed houses ofprostitution. Soliciting acts of prostitution isalso a crime, called pandering or simply,soliciting. Pandering on behalf of a prostitute iscalled pimping.
| | 1) v. tosolicit customers for a prostitute. 2) n. a pimp,who procures customers for a prostitute or lures awoman into prostitution, all for his own profit. 3)v. catering to special interests without anyprinciples, such as a politician who says towhatever group he/she is addressing just what theywant to hear to win their support, contributions orfavors.
| | n. a personwho procures a prostitute for customers or viceversa, sharing the profits of the person'sactivities. Supposedly he provides protection forthe prostitutes, but quite often he will threaten,brutalize, rape, cheat and induce drug addiction ofthe prostitutes. A pimp commits the crime ofpandering.
| | n. a personwho receives payment for sexual intercourse or othersexual acts, generally as a regular occupation.Although usually a prostitute refers to a womanoffering sexual favors to men, male prostitutes mayperform homosexual acts for money or receive paymentfrom women for sexual services. A woman prostitutewho is sent on a "date" to the hotel roomor residence of a male customer is commonly referredto as a "call girl."
| | n. genericterm for all persons convicted of crimes involvingsex, including rape, molestation, sexual harassmentand pornography production or distribution. In moststates convicted sex offenders are supposed toreport to local police authorities, but many do not.
| | n. unwantedsexual approaches (including touching, feeling,groping) and/or repeated unpleasant, degradingand/or sexist remarks directed toward an employeewith the implied suggestion that the target'semployment status, promotion or favorable treatmentdepend upon a positive response and/or"cooperation." Sexual harassment is aprivate nuisance, unfair labor practice or, in somestates, a civil wrong (tort) which may be the basisfor a lawsuit against the individual who made theadvances and against the employer who did not takesteps to halt the harassment. A legal secretaryrecently won an award of more than $3 millionagainst a prominent law firm in California for notcontrolling a partner notorious for his sexualharassment of female employees.
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