Many common law jurisdictions criminalise penetrative and non-penetrative deceptive sexual relations. Often, they prohibit that conduct under their principal sexual offences, namely rape, sexual/indecent assault etc. This article challenges that practice via two linked processes: criminalisation and fair labelling, respectively. First, it argues that, whilst deceptive sexual relations (with one exception) are equally harmful to a victim’s right to sexual autonomy as the relations proscribed by the principal sexual offences, they represent a different wrong. Secondly, it contends that this view entails the creation of separate sexual offences targeting penetrative and non-penetrative deceptive sexual relations. This would better signal to the criminal law’s audiences the distinct wrongdoing inherent in these relations. Such labelling becomes critical at the point of conviction given its effects on defendants and other parties.

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欺骗性性关系：刑事责任理论

许多普通法司法管辖区将插入式和非插入式欺骗性性关系定为刑事犯罪。通常，他们根据主要的性犯罪（即强奸、性/猥亵等）禁止这种行为。本文通过两个相互关联的程序挑战这种做法：分别是刑事定罪和公平标签。首先，它争辩说，虽然欺骗性的性关系（除了一个例外）与主要性犯罪所禁止的关系一样对受害者的性自主权同样有害，但它们代表了不同的错误。其次，它争辩说，这种观点需要针对插入式和非插入式欺骗性关系制定单独的性犯罪。这将更好地向刑法的听众表明这些关系中固有的明显不法行为。