21-5501. Definitions. The following definitions shall apply when the words and phrases defined are used in article 55 of chapter 21 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 21-6419 through 21-6422, and amendments thereto, except when a particular context clearly requires a different meaning: (a) “Sexual intercourse” means any penetration of the female […]
21-5502. Evidence of complaining witness’ previous sexual conduct in prosecutions for certain offenses; motions; notice. (a) The provisions of this section shall apply only in a prosecution for: (1) Rape, as defined in K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 21-5503, and amendments thereto; (2) indecent liberties with a child, as defined in K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 21-5506(a), and amendments […]
21-5503. Rape. (a) Rape is: (1) Knowingly engaging in sexual intercourse with a victim who does not consent to the sexual intercourse under any of the following circumstances: (A) When the victim is overcome by force or fear; or (B) when the victim is unconscious or physically powerless; (2) Knowingly engaging in sexual intercourse with […]
21-5504. Criminal sodomy; aggravated criminal sodomy. (a) Criminal sodomy is: (1) Sodomy between persons who are 16 or more years of age and members of the same sex; (2) sodomy between a person and an animal; (3) sodomy with a child who is 14 or more years of age but less than 16 years of […]
21-5505. Sexual battery; aggravated sexual battery. (a) Sexual battery is the touching of a victim who is 16 or more years of age and who does not consent thereto, with the intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of the offender or another. (b) Aggravated sexual battery is sexual battery, as defined in subsection […]
21-5506. Indecent liberties with a child; aggravated indecent liberties with a child. (a) Indecent liberties with a child is engaging in any of the following acts with a child who is 14 or more years of age but less than 16 years of age: (1) Any lewd fondling or touching of the person of either […]
21-5507. Unlawful voluntary sexual relations. (a) Unlawful voluntary sexual relations is: (1) Engaging in any of the following acts with a child who is 14 or more years of age but less than 16 years of age: (A) Voluntary sexual intercourse; (B) voluntary sodomy; or (C) voluntary lewd fondling or touching; (2) when the offender […]
21-5508. Indecent solicitation of a child; aggravated indecent solicitation of a child. (a) Indecent solicitation of a child is enticing, commanding, inviting, persuading or attempting to persuade a child 14 or more years of age but less than 16 years of age to: (1) Commit or to submit to an unlawful sexual act; or (2) […]
21-5509. Electronic solicitation. (a) Electronic solicitation is, by means of communication conducted through the telephone, internet or by other electronic means, enticing or soliciting a person, whom the offender believes to be a child, to commit or submit to an unlawful sexual act. (b) Electronic solicitation is a: (1) Severity level 3, person felony if […]
21-5510. Sexual exploitation of a child. (a) Except as provided in K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 21-5610 and 21-5611, and amendments thereto, sexual exploitation of a child is: (1) Employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing or coercing a child under 18 years of age, or a person whom the offender believes to be a child under 18 years […]
21-5511. Adultery. (a) Adultery is engaging in sexual intercourse or sodomy with a person who is not married to the offender if: (1) The offender is married; or (2) the offender is not married and knows that the other person involved in the act is married. (b) Adultery is a class C misdemeanor. History: L. […]
21-5512. Unlawful sexual relations. (a) Unlawful sexual relations is engaging in consensual sexual intercourse, lewd fondling or touching, or sodomy with a person who is not married to the offender if: (1) The offender is an employee or volunteer of the department of corrections, or the employee or volunteer of a contractor who is under […]
21-5513. Lewd and lascivious behavior. (a) Lewd and lascivious behavior is: (1) Publicly engaging in otherwise lawful sexual intercourse or sodomy with knowledge or reasonable anticipation that the participants are being viewed by others; or (2) publicly exposing a sex organ or exposing a sex organ in the presence of a person who is not […]
21-5514. Internet trading in child pornography; aggravated internet trading in child pornography. (a) Except as provided in K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 21-5610 and 21-5611, and amendments thereto, internet trading in child pornography is sexual exploitation of a child, as defined in K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 21-5510(a)(2), and amendments thereto, when the offender is 18 years of age […]
21-5515. Sexual extortion. (a) Sexual extortion is communicating by any means a threat to injure the property or reputation of a person, commit violence against a person, or distribute an image, video or other recording of a person that is of a sexual nature or depicts such person in a state of nudity: (1) With […]
