South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts48A—Compelled sexual manipulation
(1) A person (the
"offender") is guilty of an offence if he or she, for a prurient purpose,
compels a person to engage, or to continue to engage, in—
(a) an
act of sexual manipulation of the offender; or
(b) an
act of sexual manipulation of a person other than the offender; or
(c) an
act of sexual self-manipulation,
when the person so compelled does not consent to engaging in the act, or has
withdrawn consent to the act, and the offender knows, or is recklessly
indifferent to, the fact that the person does not so consent or has so
withdrawn consent (as the case may be).
Maximum penalty:
(a) for
a basic offence—imprisonment for 10 years;
(b) for
an aggravated offence—imprisonment for 15 years.
(2) In this
section—
"compels"—a person compels another person if he or she controls or
influences the other person's conduct by means that effectively prevent the
other person from exercising freedom of choice;
"prurient purpose"—a person acts for a prurient purpose if the person
acts with the intention of satisfying his or her own desire for sexual arousal
or gratification or of providing sexual arousal or gratification for someone
else;
"sexual manipulation" means the manipulation by a person of another person's
genitals or anus (whether or not including sexual intercourse);
"sexual self-manipulation" means the manipulation by a person of his or her
genitals or anus (whether or not including sexual self-penetration, within the
meaning of section 48).