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A '''consensual''' or '''[[victimless crime]]''' is behavior that is considered a [[crime]], even though all of those involved in the act give consent, and no third parties suffer as a direct result.
Political leaders may justify criminalizing such behavior because of indirect effects on third parties, or because of offense to [[norm (sociology)|cultural norm]]s, or because the law assumes that one of the parties to the action is a "victim" despite his or her [[informed consent]].
Consensual crimes are often described as crimes in which the victim is the [[state]], the juridical system, or [[society]] at large. These crimes are therefore forbidden behaviours that do not imply damage to third persons, but only affect general (sometimes [[ideology|ideological]] or cultural) interests of the system, such as common [[sexual morality]].
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