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    SODOMY IN THE FIRST DEGREE
    MEASURE 11 OFFENSE     

    163.405 Sodomy in the first degree.
    (1) A person who engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another person or causes another to engage in deviate sexual intercourse commits the crime of sodomy in the first degree if:
          (a) The victim is subjected to forcible compulsion by the actor;
          (b) The victim is under 12 years of age;
          (c) The victim is under 16 years of age and is the actor’s brother or sister, of the whole or half blood, the son or daughter of the actor or the son or daughter of the actor’s spouse; or
          (d) The victim is incapable of consent by reason of mental defect, mental incapacitation or physical helplessness.
          (2) Sodomy in the first degree is a Class A Felony.  

          163.305 Definitions. As used in chapter 743, Oregon Laws 1971, unless the context requires otherwise:
          (1) “Deviate sexual intercourse” means sexual conduct between persons consisting of contact between the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another.
          (2) “Forcible compulsion” means to compel by:
          (a) Physical force; or
          (b) A threat, express or implied, that places a person in fear of immediate or future death or physical injury to self or another person, or in fear that the person or another person will immediately or in the future be kidnapped.
          (3) “Mentally defective” means that a person suffers from a mental disease or defect that renders the person incapable of appraising the nature of the conduct of the person.
          (4) “Mentally incapacitated” means that a person is rendered incapable of appraising or controlling the conduct of the person at the time of the alleged offense.
          (5) “Physically helpless” means that a person is unconscious or for any other reason is physically unable to communicate unwillingness to an act.
          (6) “Sexual contact” means any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person or causing such person to touch the sexual or other intimate parts of the actor for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of either party.
          (7) “Sexual intercourse” has its ordinary meaning and occurs upon any penetration, however slight; emission is not required.

          163.315 Incapacity to consent; effect of lack of resistance. (1) A person is considered incapable of consenting to a sexual act if the person is:
          (a) Under 18 years of age;
          (b) Mentally defective;
          (c) Mentally incapacitated; or
          (d) Physically helpless.
          (2) A lack of verbal or physical resistance does not, by itself, constitute consent but may be considered by the trier of fact along with all other relevant evidence.
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