Oklahoma Code § 21-888v1

Title 21. Crimes And Punishments: Forcible sodomy
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A.  Any person who forces another person to engage in the
detestable and abominable crime against nature, pursuant to Section
886 of this title, upon conviction, is guilty of a felony punishable
by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a period of not more
than twenty (20) years, except as provided in Section 3 of this act.
Any person convicted of a second violation of this section, where
the victim of the second offense is a person under sixteen (16)
years of age, shall not be eligible for probation, suspended or
deferred sentence.
B.  The crime of forcible sodomy shall include:

1.  Sodomy committed by a person over eighteen (18) years of age
upon a person under sixteen (16) years of age; or
2.  Sodomy committed upon a person incapable through mental
illness or any unsoundness of mind of giving legal consent
regardless of the age of the person committing the crime; or
3.  Sodomy accomplished with any person by means of force,
violence, or threats of force or violence accompanied by apparent
power of execution regardless of the age of the victim or the person
committing the crime; or
4.  Sodomy committed by a state, county, municipal or political
subdivision employee or a contractor or an employee of a contractor
of the state, a county, a municipality or political subdivision of
this state upon a person who is under the legal custody, supervision
or authority of a state agency, a county, a municipality or a
political subdivision of this state.
Added by Laws 1981, c. 57, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1981.  Amended by Laws
1982, c. 11, § 1, operative Oct. 1, 1982; Laws 1990, c. 224, § 1,
eff. Sept. 1, 1990; Laws 1992, c. 289, § 2, emerg. eff. May 25,
1992; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 264, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st
Ex. Sess., c. 5, § 168, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2000, c. 175, § 1,
eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2002, c. 455, § 4, emerg. eff. June 5, 2002.

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