Rhode Island outlaws consensual sexual acts between adults with Criminal Code
11-10-1, Abominable and detestable crime against
nature.
Fellatio is considered to be an abominable and detestable crime against
nature in Rhode Island.
[State v. Levitt, 118 R.I. 32, 371 A.2d 596 (1977)]
This law is not considered to be unconstitutional because of vagueness or
denial of constitutional right to privacy.
[State v. Gibbons, 418 A.2d 830 (R.I. 1980)]
Rhode Island courts have decided that unmarried adults do not have the
right to privacy when engaging in private unnatural copulation.
[State v. Santos, 413 A.2d 58 (R.I. 1980)]
The penalty for a successful conviction of the "abominable and detestable crime against nature" is imprisonment not exceeding twenty (20) years nor less than seven (7) years.