There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009, Section 6.
(1)If a person (“A”) intentionally and for a purpose mentioned in subsection (2) causes another person (“B”)—
(a)without B consenting, and
(b)without any reasonable belief that B consents,
to look at a sexual image, then A commits an offence, to be known as the offence of coercing a person into looking at a sexual image.
(2)The purposes are—
(a)obtaining sexual gratification,
(b)humiliating, distressing or alarming B.
(3)For the purposes of subsection (1), a sexual image is an image (produced by whatever means and whether or not a moving image) of—
(a)A engaging in a sexual activity or of a third person or imaginary person so engaging,
(b)A's genitals or the genitals of a third person or imaginary person.
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