Talk:Sex and the law

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Contents 1 attribution 2 Ditto 3 Victimless? 4 necrophilia 5 sex as in love 6 Homosexuality

[edit] attribution

I'd like some attribution for:

Cultures with highly censorious sex laws regarding adult sex acts often have high levels of concealed sexual abuse, particularly of children.

Note that I'm the editor of this site, so it should be clear where I'm coming from. But this statement cannot stand without attribution. --Eloquence 19:21 Nov 12, 2002 (UTC)

[edit] Ditto

There are numerous generalizations here. Statistics would help but might be an enormous job to maintain and might put folks to sleep if carried to extremes. Still, it could be done and statements like "Overt puritanism implies covert abuse" seem to need more support; if these "puritan" societies are also leaders in prosecuting abuse, it could be that the same abuse is just not publically visible in other societies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.199.110.120 (talk • contribs) 00:42, 22 January 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Victimless?

Prostitution and Sex between juveniles may or may not be "Victimless". Whether or not they are is POV. The spread of sexually transmitted diseases can be attributed to protitution, and sex between juvenile (depending on how you define "juvenile"- i.e. is 16-17 juvenile? or can it be less?) can be harmful to the psyche. Therefore I am removing "victimless", as being POV unless someone can convince me otherwise. Angrynight 21:32, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] necrophilia

I am taking out necrophilia from common sex crimes. It is amazingly rare, and most area's don't have law's against it because it almost never comes up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.66.103.9 (talk • contribs) 03:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Surely it's not amazing that it's rare .... <g> --19:58, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] sex as in love

in norway. if a 14 year old boy/girl, has sex with a Boy/girl who is 15. the 15 year old has comited a crime. that is wrong. what if they can both prove that they both wanted to have sex with each other? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Demothones (talk • contribs) 09:03, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Homosexuality

Should we mention homosexuality as a crime? It has up until recently been a crime in many western cultures and still carries the death penalty in 8 countries (if memory serves me correctly). It is worth mentioning that. Cryo921 (talk) 19:05, 5 February 2008 (UTC)