Adultery laws are the laws in various countries that deal with extramarital sex. Historically, many cultures considered adultery a very serious crime,...

relationship.[citation needed] Some adultery laws differentiate based on the sex of the participants, and as a result such laws are often seen as discriminatory...

unconstitutional. The law dated from 1860. Under Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, which was the section dealing with adultery, a man who had consensual...

century, various forms of adultery were punishable in laws codified by Anglo-Saxon kings.: 202–208  These laws defined adultery in terms of damage to men's...

Famously, Athenian culture and adultery laws considered seduction of a citizen woman a worse crime than rape. Under Athenian law, killing a moichos who had...

Pornography laws by region vary throughout the world. The production and distribution of pornographic films are both activities that are legal in some...

Anti-miscegenation laws are laws that enforce racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by criminalizing interracial marriage...

culture. In countries which outlaw fornication or adultery, rape victims may become subject to these laws (if they cannot prove the rape case and/or if it...

Symbolic laws typically attempt to persuade rather than enforce, punish or prevent. For example, until the relevant statute was repealed in 2013, adultery was...

Sex and the law deals with the regulation by law of human sexual activity. Sex laws vary from one place or jurisdiction to another, and have varied over...