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Sex Crimes:

Child Pornography: (1) Material depicting a person under the age of 18 engaged in sexual activity. (2) Child pornography is not protected by the First Amendment- even if it falls short of the legal standard for obscenity – and those directly involved in its distribution can be criminally punished. (Related Crimes: Obscenity)

Date Rape: (1) Rape committed by a person who is escorting the victim on a social occasion. (2) Loosely, date rape is also sometimes used in reference to what is more accurately called acquaintance rape or relationship rape.

Indecent Exposure: An offensive display of one’s body in public, especially of the genitals. (Related Crimes: Lewdness & Obscenity)

Lewd Conduct: Gross, wanton, an public indecency that is outlawed by many state statues; a sexual act that the actor know will likely be observed by someone who will be affronted or alarmed by it. (Related Crimes: Indecent Exposure & Obscenity)

Molestation: (1) The persecution or harassment of someone, as in the molestation of a witness. (2) The act of making unwanted and indecent advances to or on someone, especially for sexual gratification. (Related Crimes: Child Molestation)

Obscenity: (1) The quality or state of being morally abhorrent or socially taboo, especially as a result of referring to or depicting sexual or excretory functions. (2) Something (such as an expression or act) that has this quality. (Related Crimes: Indecency)

Pimping / Pandering: (1) The act or offense of recruiting a prostitute, finding a place of business for a prostitute, or soliciting customers for a prostitute. (2) The act or offense of selling or distributing textual or visual material (such as magazines or videotapes) openly advertised to appeal to the recipient’s sexual interest.

Pornography: (1) Material (such as writings, photographs, or movies) depicting sexual activity or erotic behavior in a way that is designed to arouse sexual excitement. (2) Pornography is protected speech under the First Amendment unless it is determined to be legally obscene. (Related Crimes: Obscenity)

Prostitution: (1) The act or practice of engaging in sexual activity for money or its equivalent; commercialized sex. (2) The act of debasing.

Rape: (1) At common law, unlawful sexual intercourse committed by a man with a woman not his wife through force and against her will. (2) Unlawful sexual activity (especially intercourse) with a person (usually a female) without consent and usually by force or threat of injury. (Related Crimes: Sexual Assault)

Sexual Battery: (1) The forced penetration of or contact with another’s sexual organs or the sexual organs of the perpetrator. (Related Crime: Rape)

Sexual Offense: (1) An offense involving unlawful sexual conduct, such as prostitution, indecent exposure, incest, pederasty, and bestiality.

Spousal Abuse: (1) Physical, sexual, or psychological abuse inflicted by one spouse on the other souse.

Statutory Rape: Unlawful sexual intercourse with a person under the age of consent (as defined by statute), regardless of whether it is against that person’s will. (2) Generally, only an adult may be convicted of this crime.