BDSM and The Law

 

Nevada

This is NOT legal advice.

It is illegal for any member of the Nevada legislature to conduct official business wearing a penis costume while the legislature is in session.

Nevada, with 35 legal bordellos, has no condom problem. The use of condoms in Nevada brothels is compulsory.

If you live in Nevada  ask your Legislator to change these laws

Age of Consent in Nevada is 18

 “Obscene” means material that meets the following criteria:

(i) When examined in its totality, the material appeals to a prurient interest.

(ii) The material depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by state law.

(iii) When examined in its totality, the material lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

NRS 201.249 Production, sale, distribution, exhibition and possession of obscene items or materials; penalty. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 201.237 and except under the circumstances described in NRS 200.720 or 200.725, a person is guilty of a misdemeanor who knowingly: 

1. Prints, produces or reproduces any obscene item or material for sale or commercial distribution. 

2. Publishes, sells, rents, transports in intrastate commerce, or commercially distributes or exhibits any obscene item or material, or offers to do any such things. 

3. Has in his possession with intent to sell, rent, transport or commercially distribute any obscene item or material. (Added to NRS by 1979, 364; A 1995, 951)

Prostitution

NRS 201.295  Definitions.  As used in NRS 201.295 to 201.440, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires:

      1.  “Adult” means a person 18 years of age or older.

      2.  “Child” means a person less than 18 years of age.

      3.  “Prostitute” means a male or female person who for a fee engages in sexual intercourse, oral-genital contact or any touching of the sexual organs or other intimate parts of a person for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of either person.

      4.  “Prostitution” means engaging in sexual conduct for a fee.

      5.  “Sexual conduct” means any of the acts enumerated in subsection 3.

      (Added to NRS by 1979, 302; A 1987, 2028; 1997, 295)

      NRS 201.300  Pandering: Definition; penalties; exception.

      1.  A person who:

      (a) Induces, persuades, encourages, inveigles, entices or compels a person to become a prostitute or to continue to engage in prostitution;

      (b) By threats, violence or by any device or scheme, causes, induces, persuades, encourages, takes, places, harbors, inveigles or entices a person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution or assignation place, or any place where prostitution is practiced, encouraged or allowed;

      (c) By threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, by fraud or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority, or having legal charge, takes, places, harbors, inveigles, entices, persuades, encourages or procures a person to enter any place within this state in which prostitution is practiced, encouraged or allowed, for the purpose of prostitution;

      (d) By promises, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, by fraud or artifice, by duress of person or goods, or abuse of any position of confidence or authority or having legal charge, takes, places, harbors, inveigles, entices, persuades, encourages or procures a person of previous chaste character to enter any place within this state in which prostitution is practiced, encouraged or allowed, for the purpose of sexual intercourse;

      (e) Takes or detains a person with the intent to compel the person by force, threats, menace or duress to marry him or any other person; or

      (f) Receives, gives or agrees to receive or give any money or thing of value for procuring or attempting to procure a person to become a prostitute or to come into this state or leave this state for the purpose of prostitution,

Ê is guilty of pandering.

      2.  A person who is found guilty of pandering:

      (a) An adult:

             (1) If physical force or the immediate threat of physical force is used upon the adult, is guilty of a category C felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

             (2) If no physical force or immediate threat of physical force is used upon the adult, is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

      (b) A child:

             (1) If physical force or the immediate threat of physical force is used upon the child, is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 2 years and a maximum term of not more than 20 years and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $20,000.

             (2) If no physical force or immediate threat of physical force is used upon the child, is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 10 years and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $10,000.

      3.  This section does not apply to the customer of a prostitute.