Editing Sexual consent (section)

=== Legislation in the United States ===
{{Further information|Rape in the United States#Criminal punishment|Rape laws in the United States|Sexual assault in the United States military|Campus sexual assault#Prevention efforts}}
The [[United States]] do not have a uniform legal definition of sexual violence, as [[U.S. state|states]] may define this differently,<ref name="Koljonen"/> but on the federal level the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]'s [[Uniform Crime Report]] (UCR) amended its definition of rape on 1 January 2013 from the coercion-based "[[carnal knowledge]] of a female forcibly and against her will" to the consent-based "Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim", removing the requirements of force, the victim to be female, and the penetration to be vaginal.<ref name="FBI FAQ">{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/recent-program-updates/new-rape-definition-frequently-asked-questions |title=Frequently Asked Questions about the Change in the UCR Definition of Rape |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |date=11 December 2014 |accessdate=1 May 2020}}</ref> Some U.S. states (or other jurisdictions such as [[American Samoa]]) recognise penetrative sex without consent by the victim and without the use of force by the perpetrator as a crime (usually called 'rape'). Other states do not recognise this as a crime; their laws stipulate that the perpetrator must have used some kind of force (physical violence (that results in demonstrable physical injury), threats against the victim or a third party, or some other form of coercion) in order for such nonconsensual penetrative sex to amount to a crime.<ref name="Tracy">{{Cite web |url=https://www.womenslawproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Rape-and-Sexual-Assault-in-the-Legal-System-FINAL.pdf |title=Rape and sexual assault in the legal system |author=Carol E. Tracy, Terry L. Fromson, Jennifer Gentile Long, Charlene Whitman  |publisher=Women’s Law Project, AEquitas |date=5 June 2012 |accessdate=7 May 2020}}</ref> Similarly, some states (or other jurisdictions such as the [[Uniform Code of Military Justice|Military]]) recognise non-penetrative sex acts (contact such as fondling or touching a person's intimate parts, or exposure of a body or sexual activity) without consent by the victim and without the use of force by the perpetrator as a crime, while other states do not.<ref name="Tracy"/>