Rape involves sexual relations, or attempted sexual relations, between a person of the male sex and a minor of the female sex, perpetrated with mental or physical violence; Indecent assault involves physical contact, such as touching, and violence; The concept of non-violent indecent assault was introduced above all to protect vulnerable persons; In all cases of indecent assault, the sex of the perpetrator, like the absence of violence, is unimportant; An “indecent or unnatural act” is the homosexual act: when committed against a minor (a person under the age of 21 according to the Malagasy Criminal Code), it is punishable by six to seven months' imprisonment (art.
L'«acte impudique ou contre nature» est l'acte d'homosexualité commis sur un mineur (de moins de 21 ans selon le Code pénal malgache), il est puni d'une peine de six mois à trois ans d'emprisonnement (art.