Non-contact sexual abuse includes:

• Invitation to touch another in a sexual way;
• Voyeurism (“peeping Tom”);
• Encouraging or forcing a child to masturbate or to watch others masturbate;
• Indecent exposure (flashing) or showing genital areas;
• Involving a child in the viewing or production of pornographic materials or in watching sexual activities; and 
• Encouraging a child to behave in sexually ways (e.g., simulating intercourse).

Contact sexual abuse includes:

• Touching the genital area, over or under clothing; 
• Touching breasts, over or under clothing; 
• Touching another person's genital area;
• Oral sex; and 
• Vaginal or anal penetration with a part of the body or with an object.

Vermont's child protection statute defines child sexual abuse as:
Any act(s) by any person involving sexual molestation or exploitation of a child including but not limited to incest, prostitution, rape, sodomy, or any lewd and lascivious conduct involving a child. It also includes the aiding, abetting, counseling, hiring, or procuring of a child to perform or participate in any photograph, motion picture, exhibition, show, representation, or other presentation which, in whole or in part, depicts a sexual conduct, sexual excitement or sadomasochistic abuse involving a child.