id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9879 Sexuality in the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 2607 497 54 Sexual relations are mostly legal in the U.S. if there is no direct or unmediated exchange of money, if it is consensual, teleiophilic (between adults) and non-consanguineous i.e. between people who are not related familially or by kinship.[17] There are however exceptions, with for instance adult incestual relations being legal in states such as New Jersey and Rhode Island as of 2017.[18] Prostitution laws in the U.S. are by far the strictest in the developed world,[citation needed] but the state of Nevada licenses several of its counties to operate brothels and permits prostitutes/sex workers to sell sex, and clients to purchase sex.[19] There are also exceptions to age of consent laws, with some states permitting an ephebophilic relationship if the two persons are close in age[20] under what are known as Romeo-and-Juliet laws. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9879.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9879.txt