Adultery laws are the laws in various countries that deal with extramarital sex. Historically, many cultures considered adultery a very serious crime,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Pornography laws by region vary throughout the world. The production and distribution of pornographic films are both activities that are legal in some...
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Anti-miscegenation laws are laws that enforce racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by criminalizing interracial marriage...
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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...
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the Manusmriti (the Laws of Manu). The penalties for ayoni are very lenient when compared to other sexual offenes, such as adultery. The Arthashastra prescribes...
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Symbolic laws typically attempt to persuade rather than enforce, punish or prevent. For example, until the relevant statute was repealed in 2013, adultery was...
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