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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55287</law_id><section_number>18.2-361</section_number><catch_line>Crimes against nature; penalty</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-272</reference><reference>17.1-275.13</reference><reference>17.1-805</reference><reference>18.2-251.03</reference><reference>18.2-346</reference><reference>18.2-346.1</reference><reference>18.2-348</reference><reference>18.2-356</reference><reference>18.2-359</reference><reference>18.2-360</reference><reference>18.2-370</reference><reference>18.2-370.1</reference><reference>18.2-370.2</reference><reference>18.2-374.3</reference><reference>18.2-61.1</reference><reference>18.2-67.5:2</reference><reference>18.2-67.8</reference><reference>19.2-11.5</reference><reference>19.2-268.2</reference><reference>19.2-268.3</reference><reference>19.2-271.2</reference><reference>19.2-299</reference><reference>19.2-392.02</reference><reference>22.1-289.041</reference><reference>32.1-58</reference><reference>63.2-1530</reference><reference>9.1-902</reference><reference>9.1-923</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Crimes Involving Morals and Decency</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Commercial Sex Trafficking, Prostitution, etc</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> If any person carnally knows in any manner any brute animal or voluntarily submits to such carnal knowledge, he is guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. <a id="paragraph-202780" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-361/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Any person who performs or causes to be performed cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, or anal intercourse upon or by his daughter or granddaughter, son or grandson, brother or sister, or father or mother is guilty of a Class 5 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. However, if a parent or grandparent commits any such act with his child or grandchild and such child or grandchild is at least 13 but less than 18 years of age at the time of the <span class="dictionary">offense</span>, such parent or grandparent is guilty of a Class 3 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. <a id="paragraph-202781" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-361/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> For the purposes of this section, parent includes step-parent, grandparent includes step-grandparent, child includes step-child, and grandchild includes step-grandchild. <a id="paragraph-202782" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-361/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-212; 1960, c. 358; 1968, c. 427; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1977, c. 285; 1981, c. 397; 1993, c. 450; 2005, c. 185; 2014, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
