Sexual acts with persons under the age of 12 are considered rape. The desecration of minors is prohibited, there is no criminal offence if a sexual act is committed with a person over 12 years of age but under 18 years of age, provided that the minor is considered sexually adult in the opinion of the court. It depends on the circumstances. Various circumstances (e.g., use of force, dependent relationship, minor under 9 years of age) may add to the sentence. [24] From Interpol`s point of view, the age of consent is therefore 18 years. [25] The Catholic Church condemns extramarital sexual relations and sets the minimum age of marriage according to the Codex Iuris Canonici at 16 for men and 14 for women, with local episcopal conferences able to adjust this level upwards. [45] In Austria, the age of consent is 14 years. With this age, maturity begins (§ 74 Abs. 1 Z 1 öStGB). This means that, in principle, all forms of sexual contact with which both agree are allowed as long as both have reached the age of 14, unless one of the people involved has not yet reached the age of 16 and is not yet mature enough for certain reasons to “see the meaning of the process or act according to this intuition” and the author takes advantage of this lack of maturity and its age-related superiority (§ 207b para. 1 StGB).

For prostitution, the age of consent is 18 years, i.e. the suitor of a prostitute under the age of 18 is liable to prosecution (§ 207b Abs. 3 StGB). Thus, in Vatican City, the age of consent valid in Italy in 1929/1924 was 12 years and in the case of dependency conditions 15 years. According to the version of § 182 para. 1 StGB, the age of consent for the exploitation of a difficult situation and the granting of remuneration was 16 years, only an author who was at least 18 years of age could be punishable. In the case of the exploitation of the lack of capacity for sexual self-determination of a victim under 16 years of age by an author who is at least 21 years of age (§ 182 para. 2 StGB a.F.), the wording of the provision was identical to the wording of the current version (now in paragraph 3). The attempt to violate all the provisions of the paragraph was not punishable. In Liechtenstein, the age of consent is 14 years (§ 74 para.

1 No. 1 in conjunction with Articles 205 and 206 of the Criminal Code (Liechtenstein)). Sexual acts with children aged 12 and 13 are not punishable if the partner is not more than three years older and the younger person is neither put in a distressing state nor humiliated in a special way by the act for a long time and the act does not result in serious bodily injury or death of the minor (unlike Austria, the age tolerance clause does not distinguish between sexual intercourse and other sexual acts. ==References==In 1999, the age of consent for sexual acts in Yemen was lowered by 15 years at the beginning of puberty; as a general rule, an age of nine years applies. Marriage is possible from the age of ten. [22] The legislation treats homosexual and heterosexual acts differently: homosexual acts between men were generally illegal in the Soviet Union and Russia until 1993. Since 1993, consensual homosexual sexual contact between adults has been exempt from sanctions – but for consensual homosexual contact in violation of the age of consent, different rules apply to those of heterosexuals: the maximum penalty for consensual contact with a minor under 14 or 15 years of age is four years for heterosexual contact, six years for homosexual contact (Article 134(1) and (2)). If the age difference is less than four years, heterosexual contact cannot be punished with prison, homosexual contact can. In Spain, the age of consent has been 16 since 2015. [27] [28] From 1999 to 2015, it was 13 years, before 1999, the age of consent was 12 years. [29] [30] On the provisions of § 182 StGB Abs. 1 and 2 (difficult situation, remuneration) with regard to the age of consent of 18 years, which also apply to victims under 16 years of age, sexual acts committed by adults over 21 years of age with minors under 14 and 15 years of age may be punished in accordance with Article 182(3), if a legal representative of the minor files a criminal complaint and, in the context of criminal proceedings, the court considers that: that the adult has taken advantage of a “lack of capacity for sexual self-determination” of the adolescent to be determined – for example with the help of an expert.

In 1996, the Federal Court of Justice ruled that the mere reference to the age of the person aged 14 or 15 is not sufficient to convict the adult accused. On the contrary, the individual capacity or inability of the adolescent to engage in sexual self-determination and, if necessary, the exploitation of sexual self-determination by the perpetrator must be considered in each individual case. [2] Even from the adolescent`s sexual inexperience, the lack of capacity for sexual self-determination cannot be inferred. [3] In the GDR, Articles 175 and 175a applied until the reform of the criminal law in 1968. Therefore, Article 151 of the Penal Code (GDR) prohibits homosexual acts between an adult and a teenager of the same sex until 1988. With the repeal of § 151, § 149 was rewritten and subsequently provided for a uniform age of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts: In the United States, the determination of the age of consent is a matter for the States. In most U.S. states, the age of consent is reached at the age of 16. In Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, Colorado, New York and Wyoming, the age of consent is 17. Regulations are even stricter in Arizona, Idaho, California, Florida, Delaware, Utah, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Texas and Wisconsin; in these States, the age of consent is 18 years.

Sexual acts with people who have not reached the age of consent are punishable in the United States partly as legal rape, in part based on various other offenses. [31] For example, in New York State, any sexual contact with and between persons under the age of 17 is prohibited without exception and is classified as a misdemeanour, felony or violent crime according to age difference. In some countries, criminal responsibility is differentiated by gender, so in Idaho, sexual contact with female partners under the age of 18 is invariably considered rape, while there is no direct equivalent for sexual acts with male minors. [32] [33] On the 26th. In August 2006, the Federal Cabinet decided to amend a number of laws as part of the implementation of an EU directive on better protection of young people against sexual exploitation. Among other things, the amendment also affected the increase in the previous age of consent in accordance with § 182 (1) StGB. According to the Federal Government`s draft, the age of consent should be raised from 16 to 18 years in the case of sexual acts for remuneration or profit from a difficult situation. In § 182 sec. 1 StGB, the lower age limit of 18 years for the criminal liability of the offender should also be omitted. This would have meant that in the future, a person from the age of 14 (criminal responsibility) could be punished if he performs sexual acts with another person under the age of 18 taking advantage of a difficult situation or for remuneration. Another novelty, the attempt to violate § 182 StGB should be criminalized.

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