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...

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

specialized laws. Specialized laws to address the emerging phenomenon of "deep fake" pornographic content became an active subject of law-making and litigation...

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 For example, until the relevant statute was repealed in 2013, adultery was...

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...

are prohibited. Also, most laws make no provision for the rare case of marriage between double first cousins. Incest laws may also include prohibitions...

repealing the state's sodomy, adultery, fornication, and abortion laws. On May 19, Governor Tim Walz signed the bill into law. It took effect the following...

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...

of Junior idol media under existing laws. The United States ambassador to Japan has stated that Japan's lack of laws restricting possession of child pornography...

In many parts of the world, bestiality is illegal under animal abuse laws or laws dealing with sodomy or crimes against nature. Three key terms commonly...

"Thou shalt not commit adultery" (Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תִנְאָף, romanized: Lōʾ t̲inʾāp̲) is found in the Book of Exodus of the Hebrew Bible. It is considered...

categories, penalties, and interpretations of laws. Differences include the definition of "child" under the laws, which can vary with the age of sexual consent;...

the Seven Laws of Noah (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח, Sheva Mitzvot B'nei Noach), otherwise referred to as the Noahide Laws or the Noachian Laws (from the...

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...

do not lead to arrests and convictions. Laws vary in their definitions of statutory rape. Statutory rape laws are based on the premise that an individual...

anti-miscegenation laws which prohibited interracial marriage and, in some states, interracial sexual relations. Some of these laws predated the establishment...

illegal under federal law and in all states and is punishable by up to life imprisonment and fines of up to $250,000. U.S. laws regarding child pornography...

arise at federal and state levels. State laws operate only within the jurisdiction of each state, and state laws on obscenity differ. Federal statutes ban...

territories have similar laws, some of which use a different ages (for example the victim only has to be under 16 in Queensland). Such laws across Australia were...

there was a movement to repeal sodomy laws. It has been claimed that this was the first campaign to repeal anti-gay laws that was spearheaded primarily by...

specifics of child sexual abuse laws vary, but certain features of these laws are common to all states. In Yemen, the law does not define child abuse. A...

follower of The Law of Thelema, again challenged the State of Illinois' laws against bigamy, adultery, and fornication. Asserting that these laws limited his...

Contemporary Rhetoric of Deviance". PSU.edu. "No Easy Answers: Sex Offender Laws in the US". Human Rights Watch Report. September 11, 2007. "Internet Safety...

and law reform groups such as National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws and Women Against Registry criticize current sex offender laws as based...

Age of consent reform is an effort to change age of consent laws. Proposed reforms typically include raising, lowering, or abolishing the age of consent...

foreign object for any purpose other than good faith medical, hygienic or law enforcement procedures." On March 31, 1995, "Section 3124. Voluntary deviate...