---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 2427"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "2427"
heading: "Inclusion of offenses relating to child pornography in definition of sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/2427"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 117 — Transportation for Illegal Sexual Activity and Related Crimes"
---

# §2427. Inclusion of offenses relating to child pornography in definition of sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense


In this chapter, the term “sexual activity for which any [person](/usc/18/229F.md?p=5) can be charged with a criminal offense” does not require interpersonal physical contact, and includes the production of [child pornography](/usc/18/2256.md?p=8), as defined in [section 2256(8)](/usc/18/2256.md?p=8).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–314, title I, § 105(a), Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 2977; amended Pub. L. 118–31, div. E, title LI, § 5102(e), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 935.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2023—Pub. L. 118–31 inserted “does not require interpersonal physical contact, and” before “includes”.