Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0670018627
ISBN 13
9780670018628
Category
History
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Publication Year
2008
Publisher
Pages
528
Description
A history of the government's regulation of sexual behavior traces the historical purposes behind the prohibition against sodomy in early America and continues with a discussion of how the law was referenced in different contexts in later years, covering such topics as the McCarthy era, the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and the 2003 Supreme Court decision to decriminalize private sex between consenting adults. 20,000 first printing. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
