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What is the legal definition of a sexual offense in Guam?

For the purposes of getting a civil sexual offense protection order, a sexual offense is a sexual act that happened without your consent (nonconsensual). This includes:

  • sexual contact; or
  • sexual penetration.1

Without consent means you did not freely and willingly agree to that specific sexual act at the time it happened.

Sexual contact is when a person intentionally does any of the following for their own sexual arousal or gratification:

  • touches your intimate body parts, such as genitals, breasts, or anus;
  • touches clothing covering those body parts; or
  • exposes your genitals, anus, or breasts.

Sexual penetration includes:

  • any type of sexual intercourse; or
  • any insertion, even slight, of a body part or an object into the vagina or anus.

It does not matter whether ejaculation occurred.2

1 7 Guam Code § 40A103
2 7 Guam Code § 40A101

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