Talk:Sex and the law

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I'd like some attribution for:

Cultures with highly censorious sex laws regarding adult sex acts often have high levels of concealed sexual abuse, particularly of children.

Note that I'm the editor of this site, so it should be clear where I'm coming from. But this statement cannot stand without attribution. --Eloquence 19:21 Nov 12, 2002 (UTC)

[edit] Ditto

There are numerous generalizations here. Statistics would help but might be an enormous job to maintain and might put folks to sleep if carried to extremes. Still, it could be done and statements like "Overt puritanism implies covert abuse" seem to need more support; if these "puritan" societies are also leaders in prosecuting abuse, it could be that the same abuse is just not publically visible in other societies.

[edit] Victimless?

Prostitution and Sex between juveniles may or may not be "Victimless". Whether or not they are is POV. The spread of sexually transmitted diseases can be attributed to protitution, and sex between juvenile (depending on how you define "juvenile"- i.e. is 16-17 juvenile? or can it be less?) can be harmful to the psyche. Therefore I am removing "victimless", as being POV unless someone can convince me otherwise. Angrynight 21:32, 5 March 2006 (UTC)