Florida legal term
Sexual conduct in Florida Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Florida legislative session
In Florida criminal law, “Sexual conduct” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Florida criminal code.
What does “Sexual conduct” mean in Florida criminal law?
“Sexual conduct” means actual or simulated sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual bestiality, masturbation, or sadomasochistic abuse; actual or simulated lewd exhibition of the genitals; actual physical contact with a person’s clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if such person is a female, breast with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of either party; or any act or conduct which constitutes sexual battery or simulates that sexual battery is being or will be committed. (Fla. Stat. § 775.0847)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Computer pornography; prohibited computer usage; traveling to meet minor; penalties
- Exposing children to an adult live performance
- Exposing minors to harmful motion pictures, exhibitions, shows, presentations, or representations
- Harmful communication to a minor
- Harmful materials; sale or distribution to minors or using minors in production prohibited; penalty
- Offenses against students by authority figures
- Prohibition of adult entertainment establishment that displays, sells, or distributes materials harmful to minors within 2,500 feet of a school
- Sexual cyberharassment
- Theft or unauthorized promotion of a sexually explicit image
- Unlawful sexual activity with certain minors
Related terms in the same statutes
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