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==Portugal==
Art 171 of the Portuguese Penal Code establishes the age of consent as ''' 1416''', regardless of gender or sexual orientation, but Art 173 forbids sexual relations between adults and adolescents aged 1416to1618 if it can be said the adult took advantage of the adolescent's inexperience, and Art 172 limits it further, forbidding sexual relations with youth aged 16 to 18 by adults entrusted with their education or assistance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.codigopenal.pt/|title=Código Penal|website=www.codigopenal.pt|access-date=18 October 2019}}</ref><blockquote>Section II - Crimes against sexual self-determination
Article 171 - Child sexual abuse
1. Anyone who engages in a major sexual act with or under 1416 years of age, or causes him to do it with another person, is punished with imprisonment from one to eight years.
2. If the sexual act of relief consists of copulation, anal intercourse, oral intercourse or vaginal or anal introduction of body parts or objects, the agent is punished with imprisonment of three to ten years.
3. Who:
a) To prevent minors under 1416 years of age, practicing the act provided for in article 170; or
b) Act on a child under the age of 1416, by means of a conversation, writing, spectacle or pornographic object;
c) Enticing children under 1416 to attend sexual abuse or sexual activity;
is punished with imprisonment for up to three years.
Article 172 - Sexual abuse of dependent children
1. Those who practice or lead to practice the act described in paragraphs 1 or 2 of the previous article, relative to a minor between 1416 and 18 years of age entrusted to him or her for education or assistance, shall be punished with imprisonment from one to eight years. .
2. Whoever commits an act described in paragraph 3 of the previous article, in relation to the minor understood in the previous paragraph of this article and under the conditions described therein, shall be punished with imprisonment of up to one year.
Article 173 - Sexual acts with adolescents
1. Who, being of legal age , engages in a major sexual act between the ages of 1416 and 1618, or causes it to be practiced by him with others, abusing his inexperience, is punished with imprisonment for up to 2 years.
2. If the sexual act of relief consists of copulation, oral intercourse, anal intercourse or vaginal or anal introduction of body parts or objects, the agent is punished with imprisonment for up to 3 years.
===History===
Since September 2007, the age of consent was formally equalised as part of the Penal Code of September 2007. Although the age of consent is stipulated at 1416 in Portugal, the legality of sexual acts with a minor between 1416 and 1618 is open to legal interpretation since the law states that it is illegal to perform a sexual act with an adolescent between 1416 and 1618 years old "by taking advantage of their inexperience".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avert.org/aofconsent.htm|title=Worldwide Ages of Consent|date=3 November 2011|publisher=Avert.org|access-date=11 April 2012}}</ref> Homosexual acts were legalised for the first time in Portugal in 1852, with an equal age of consent at that time - although homosexuality was again re-criminalised in 1886. They were decriminalised a second time in 1983 and an age of consent was set at 1618, in line with heterosexual activities. In 1995, a new Penal Code was introduced with "different circumstances" for different sexual behaviours. Since September 2007, the age of consent, regardless of sexual behaviour, gender or sexual orientation, is 1416 {{Citation needed|date=October 2007}}.
{{see also|LGBT rights in Portugal}}
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