2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code
Title 14 - Crimes
Chapter 85 - Rape and Related Offenses
§ 1699. Definition
- As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(a) “perpetrator” means a person accused of rape or unlawful sexual contact.
(b) “personal injury” means serious bodily injury, disfigurement, chronic pain, disease, or loss or impairment of a sexual or reproductive organ.
(c) “sexual conduct” means actual or simulated:
(1) Sexual intercourse, including genital to genital, oral to genital, anal to genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex.
(2) Penetration of the vagina or rectum however slight by hand, finger or by any object except when done as part of a recognized medical procedure.
(d) “sexual contact” means any touching of another person with the genitals or any touching of the genitals, anus, groin, inner thighs, buttocks, lips or breasts of another person, or such touching through the clothing, for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire of any person.
(e) “sexual intercourse” means vaginal intercourse or any insertion, however slight, of a hand, finger or object into the vagina, vulva, or labia, excluding such insertion for medical treatment or examination.
(f) “sodomy” means carnal knowledge of any person by the mouth, i.e., cunnilingus or fellatio; or by the anus; or by submission to the same; or by any insertion, however slight, of any object into a person's anus, excluding such insertion for medical treatment or examination.
(g) “victim” means the person alleging to have been subjected to rape or unlawful sexual contact.
