A criminal statute against sodomy, §18.2-361(A), is constitutional when applied to acts involving children aged 16 and 17, the Court of Appeals holds in an opinion by Judge Haley in McDonald v. Commonwealth, 48 Va. App. 325, 630 S.E.2d 754, 21 VLW 67 (6/13/06). The defendant, aged 45, argued that the teenagers involved were adults under the definitions implied by Code §18.2-63, which prohibits carnal knowledge of a child 13 or 14 years old, and §18.2-371, which makes sex between people over 18 and children between 15 and 17 a misdemeanor. However, the Court recognizes no variation in the definition of “adult,” which it says is defined in Code §1-203, §1-204 and §1-207 as a person 18 years or older except where a statute specifically uses a different definition. It notes that the United States Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) “made quite clear that its ruling did not apply to sexual acts involving children.”