Alternate Title
Prurient Interests: The Law of Sexual Desire
Keywords
Criminal Law, Law and Society, Legal History, Sexuality and the Law
Abstract
A recent book by George Fisher tries to explain the history of drug and alcohol laws in terms of social and legal norms against whatever can rob people of rational thinking; this article extends the analysis to laws about sexual behavior in the last two centuries, their rise and fall.
Recommended Citation
Lawrence M Friedman, Prurient Interests: The Law of Sexual Desire, 20 FIU L. Rev. 118 (2025), https://doi.org/10.25148/lawrev.20.1.6.
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