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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69532</law_id><section_number>18.2-386.2</section_number><catch_line>Unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another; penalty</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>19.2-392.02</reference><reference>19.2-8</reference><reference>8.01-40.4</reference><reference>9.1-902</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="5">Obscenity and Related Offenses</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Any person who, with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to coerce, harass, or intimidate, maliciously disseminates or sells any videographic or still image created by any means whatsoever that depicts <span class="dictionary">another person</span> (i) who is totally nude; (ii) who is in a state of undress so as to expose the genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breast; or (iii) whose genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breast are not exposed but such videographic or still image is obscene as defined in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="&quot;Obscene&quot; defined" href="/18.2-372/">18.2-372</a> where such person knows or has reason to know that he is not licensed or authorized to disseminate or sell such videographic or still image is guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>. For purposes of this subsection, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">another person</span>&#x201D; includes a person whose image was used in creating, adapting, or modifying a videographic or still image with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to depict an actual person and who is recognizable as an actual person by the person&#x2019;s face, likeness, or other distinguishing characteristic. <a id="paragraph-251393" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-386.2/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If a person uses services of an Internet service provider, an electronic mail service provider, or any other information service, system, or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server in committing acts prohibited under this section, such provider shall not be held responsible for violating this section for content provided by <span class="dictionary">another person</span>. <a id="paragraph-251394" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-386.2/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> <span class="dictionary">Venue</span> for a <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> under this section may lie in the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> where the unlawful act occurs or where any videographic or still image created by any means whatsoever is produced, reproduced, found, stored, received, or possessed in violation of this section. <a id="paragraph-251395" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-386.2/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> The provisions of this section shall not preclude <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> under any other <span class="dictionary">statute</span>. <a id="paragraph-251396" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/18.2-386.2/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2014, c. 399; 2019, cc. 490, 515; 2024, c. 697.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
