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- A sodomy law is a law that defines certain sexual acts as crimes. The precise sexual acts meant by the term sodomy are rarely spelled out in the law, but...104 KB (11,789 words) - 23:49, 18 August 2024
- term sodomy, which is derived from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Book of Genesis, was commonly restricted to homosexual anal sex. Sodomy laws in...64 KB (7,469 words) - 19:12, 31 July 2024
- The United States has inherited sodomy laws which constitutionally outlawed a variety of sexual acts that are deemed to be illegal, illicit, unlawful...65 KB (4,531 words) - 09:20, 17 August 2024
- seen as evidence of a "sodomy-law reform wave." During the same period, however, eight countries expanded their laws regarding sodomy. In January 2014, Nigeria...22 KB (2,442 words) - 03:10, 11 July 2024
- LGBT rights in the United Kingdom (redirect from Sodomy laws in England)basis for law in Britain's other colonies, therefore exporting anti-homosexuality laws throughout the British Empire. Today, anti-homosexuality laws still...220 KB (20,316 words) - 20:35, 21 August 2024
- Bowers v. Hardwick (category 1986 in United States case law)Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults, in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy, though the law did...30 KB (3,386 words) - 00:03, 18 August 2024
- LGBT rights by country or territory (redirect from Homosexuality laws)transgender people laws related to sexual orientation and military service laws concerning access to assisted reproductive technology sodomy laws that penalize...61 KB (18,240 words) - 04:00, 19 August 2024
- writers and portrayed in artwork such as vases. It later became subject to sodomy laws and became increasingly seen as contemptible. In the 17th century, intercrural...34 KB (3,650 words) - 03:18, 12 August 2024
- Lawrence v. Texas (category 2003 in United States case law)the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults are unconstitutional. The Court reaffirmed...64 KB (7,341 words) - 15:14, 16 August 2024
- Female sodomy is distinct from the social and legal category of (male) sodomy due to the significant differences in the way women accused of sodomy were...22 KB (2,952 words) - 03:13, 7 August 2024
- Massachusetts, have all had their state sodomy laws struck down by the courts, but the legislatures have not repealed those laws. On April 18, 2013, the governor...460 KB (38,682 words) - 03:51, 28 August 2024
- imprisonment for sodomy. In 1912, the Supreme Court of Nevada held that fellatio constituted a criminal offense. As was the case for such laws around the United...46 KB (4,534 words) - 18:50, 24 July 2024
- sexual penetration); the latter were traditionally dealt with under sodomy laws. This redefinition of rape had the effect of defining male rape. There...87 KB (11,253 words) - 13:45, 7 August 2024
- Ayoni (section Sodomy and ayoni)creature without the genital. Hinduism portal Human sexuality portal Anti-sodomy laws Auparishtaka LGBT history in India LGBT themes in Hindu mythology Religion...8 KB (780 words) - 21:56, 20 July 2024
- Crime against nature (category Sex laws)against nature" laws. Thus, fellatio, cunnilingus and anal sex can no longer fall within the scope of such laws. See also Sodomy laws. Article 377 of...12 KB (1,379 words) - 22:22, 24 August 2024
- Commonwealth v. Wasson (category Kentucky state case law)1992 Kentucky Supreme Court decision striking down the state's anti sodomy laws that criminalized sexual activity between two people of the same-sex...11 KB (1,300 words) - 05:41, 16 May 2024
- Toonen v. Australia (category Privacy case law)Toonen in 1994. The case resulted in the repeal of Australia's last sodomy laws when the Committee held that sexual orientation was included in the antidiscrimination...20 KB (2,644 words) - 00:28, 1 June 2024
- LGBT rights in France (section Sodomy laws)Ancien Régime, all sodomy laws were repealed in 1791 during the French Revolution. However, a lesser-known indecent exposure law that often targeted...80 KB (7,835 words) - 02:02, 4 July 2024
- LGBT rights in Minnesota (section Sodomy law repeal)Territory was given Wisconsin's laws, including a ban on heterosexual and homosexual sodomy, which was defined by the common law. When Minnesota drafted its...57 KB (4,837 words) - 17:19, 21 August 2024
- Homosexuality in Japan (section Politics and law)this time Japan briefly adopted anti-sodomy laws in an attempt to modernize its code (more on this below), the laws were repealed when French legalist Gustave...54 KB (6,824 words) - 17:16, 23 August 2024
- and men. Moreover, early sodomy laws seem not to have been enforced against consenting adults acting in private. Instead, sodomy prosecutions often involved
- term sodomy, which is derived from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Book of Genesis, was commonly restricted to homosexual anal sex. Sodomy laws in
- the 1970s when many so-called "sodomy laws" were repealed. Lesbians were not widely persecuted under Nazi anti-gay laws, as it was considered easier to