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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 6. SEXUAL OFFENSES

16-6-16. Masturbation for hire.

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(a)
A person, including a masseur or masseuse, commits the offense of masturbation for hire when he erotically stimulates the genital organs of another, whether resulting in orgasm or not, by manual or other bodily contact exclusive of sexual intercourse or by instrumental manipulation for money or the substantial equivalent thereof.#
(b)
A person committing the offense of masturbation for hire shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 26-2021, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 402, § 1.

Cross references

Affirmative defense to certain sexual crimes, § 16-3-6.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Constitutional Criminal Litigation,’’ see 32 Mercer L. Rev. 993 (1981).

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