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A Guide to America's Sex Laws Hardcover - 1996

by Richard A. Posner; Katharine B. Silbaugh


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A Guide to America's Sex Laws is the first concise compendium of the nation's sex laws. It summarizes the laws regulating personal sexual activity, revealing gaps, anachronisms, anomalies, inequalities, and irrationalities, and providing an empirical basis for studies of sexual regulation. Judge Richard A. Posner and Katharine B. Silbaugh cover broadly defined areas of regulation, providing background and definitions and placing the laws in their historical and constitutional context. From Alabama to Wyoming, this informative and fascinating reference book will be an essential resource. It takes only a few minutes with A Guide to [America's] Sex to realize that the nation's laws governing what two consenting adults can do with one another are an odd jumble.--Eric Fidler, San Diego Commerce Especially noteworthy is how laws governing various sexual activities vary from state to state.--Library Journal Fascinating and often surprising facts are concisely documented and conveniently organized in A Guide.--Carlin Meyer, New York Law Journal

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Sex, although considered by many in our culture the quintessential private activity, is blanketed by a staggering number and variety of laws. This first concise compendium of the nation's sex laws brings together in one place and summarizes the laws regulating personal sexual activity. In doing so, it reveals gaps, anachronisms, anomalies, inequalities, and irrationalities, and provides an empirical basis for studies of sexual regulation. From Alabama to Wyoming, this informative and fascinating reference book will be an essential resource to a wide range of persons both within and outside the legal profession - specialists in the regulation of sexual behavior, students of the legislative process, lawyers involved in family and sex law, and anyone interested in social and political issues involving sexual orientation and sexual morality.

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  • Title A Guide to America's Sex Laws
  • Author Richard A. Posner; Katharine B. Silbaugh
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996-10
  • ISBN 9780226675640 / 0226675645
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.78 x 5.82 x 0.93 in (22.30 x 14.78 x 2.36 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex and law - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96003306
  • Dewey Decimal Code 347.305

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Citations

  • Booklist, 10/15/1996, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 09/01/1996, Page 170
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