deviant sexual intercourse
{{Short description|American legal term}}
{{Sex and the Law}}
Deviant sexual intercourse or deviate 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".{{cite web |title=Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs |url=http://www.kasap.org/stats.asp |url-status=dead |publisher=Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs |access-date=January 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210101508/http://www.kasap.org/stats.asp |archive-date=February 10, 2009}}
Model Penal Code
In the United States of America, deviate sexual intercourse has been popularized since its usage in the U.S. Model Penal Code.{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/ModelPenalCode_ALI | title=Model Penal Code - full | date=January 1962 }} The MPC defines, {{Quote|"Deviate sexual intercourse" means sexual intercourse per os or per anum between human beings who
are not husband and wife, and any form of sexual intercourse with an animal."https://ia600102.us.archive.org/29/items/ModelPenalCode_ALI/MPC%20full%20%28504%20pages%29.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}}}
U.S. states
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.
=Texas & Kentucky=
In the United States, the term has replaced sodomy in the criminal codes of some states, including Texas{{cite book |last=Bartee |first=Alice Fleetwood |title=Privacy Rights: Cases Lost and Causes Won Before the Supreme Court |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wMh-2Vm8CnkC&pg=PA210 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |date=2005 |pages=210 |isbn=9780742553200 |access-date=January 21, 2009}} and Kentucky.
=Pennsylvania=
As an example, Section 3101 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes defines "deviate sexual intercourse" as "Sexual intercourse per os or per anus between human beings and any form of sexual intercourse with an animal. The term also includes penetration, however slight, of the genitals or anus of another person with a foreign object for any purpose other than good faith medical, hygienic or law enforcement procedures."{{cite web |title=Chapter 31 – Sexual Offenses |url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/18/00.031..HTM |work=Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes |publisher=Pennsylvania General Assembly |date=July 23, 2020 |access-date=January 30, 2021}} On March 31, 1995, "Section 3124. Voluntary deviate sexual intercourse" was repealed; it was no longer considered a criminal offense to engage in such activity voluntarily.
SCOTUS
The consensual practice of anal or oral sex was legalised by the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court case of Lawrence v. Texas.