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Carnal knowledge is�sexual intercourse between two people, typically requiring at least some slight penetration. Carnal knowledge is a necessary element of many sex crimes such as rape, child molestation, or consensual sexual relations with someone below the age of consent (i.e statutory rape).�

The term, carnal knowledge, may appear in the state statute that provides the elements of a criminal offense. For example, the Virginia Criminal Code � 18.2-63 uses the term: �If any person carnally knows, without the use of force, a child thirteen years of age or older but under fifteen years of age, such person shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony.� It defines carnal knowledge to include, �the acts of sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, and animate and inanimate object sexual penetration.� Similarly, Georgia�s Criminal Code establishes that one is guilty of rape when they forcibly have carnal knowledge of a woman against her will. (Ga. Code Ann. �16-6-1(a)).

Most states, such as New York and California, use the terms �sexual intercourse� in the state criminal codes describing the elements of sexual crimes such as rape.��