“Article 141 of the new [2001] Penal Code does not differentiate between gay and heterosexual rape and provides 14 years as the same minimal age of consent for both whereas the punishment for rape remains the same - 2-5 years of confinement. The punishment for consenting sexual intercourse with a person under 14 years of age has become remarkably milder - up to 3 years of confinement (Article 145) instead of previous confinement of 4 years (vaginal intercourse) and from 2 to 10 years (anal intercourse). Article 146 provides confinement for up to 2 years for satisfaction of sexual desire with a person under 14 years of age otherwise than by sexual intercourse”[1].

 


Link:

http://www.interpol.int/Public/Children/SexualAbuse/NationalLaws/csaEstonia.asp

Refs:

  • Krista Papp, Osmo Kontula& Elise Kosunen: Teenage Sexuality in Estonia and in Finland in the 1990s. Teoksessa Yearbook of Population Research in Finland XXXIV 1997 (ed. Ismo Söderling). The Population Research Institute. Helsinki. pp. 161-172.

 

 

 

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. Volume I. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Last revised: Jun 2005

 



[1]Kotte, L. (2001) Estonia Repeals Discriminatory Age of Consent for Same-Sex Activity, EuroLetter [ILGA Europe] 89:10