Word: sexualism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elaborate Conjecture. What could an autopsy prove now, weeks after death? It could disclose whether or not Mary Jo was pregnant, though probably not whether she had had sexual intercourse in the hours before she died. Judging from her character, however, those matters are unlikely to be a consideration. An autopsy could determine more firmly whether she died by drowning or some other cause. It could not establish whether she had remained alive for a time, breathing in an air pocket, after the Kennedy car sank to the bottom of the saltwater pond...
...code, the result of a six-year study by a special commission of the Connecticut general assembly, reforms a number of antiquated Connecticut sex laws, some dating back to 1642. Accepting the commission's recommendation that all sexual activity be tween two consenting, mentally competent adults "is no business of the criminal law," the code eliminates adultery, homosexuality and lascivious car riage as punishable acts...
...hardly ever make a mor als arrest any more," said New Haven Police Chief James Ahern. Even so, the breadth of the old laws invited ar bitrary interpretation and unequal en forcement. All that was needed to prove lascivious carriage, for example, was some sign of sexual activity. "Oh, you know - rumpled sheets, both of them in a state of undress - that sort of thing," said one policeman. The police also found lascivious carriage a handy stat ute to invoke against anyone whose conduct displeased them. "When you see a black boy and a white girl together," said a Connecticut...
Ardent Lover. In most other states, sex laws are still so archaic they would make Hester Prynne feel at home. Sev en years ago, the American Law Institute proposed a Model Penal Code that would eliminate traditional penalties for sexual relations between consenting adults in private. Connecticut, and to a degree Illinois, have followed the rec ommendations. Montana, Oregon and others are considering similar action...
Elsewhere, most sexual relations out side marriage - and some within - are criminal offenses. Adultery and forni cation are commonly outlawed. Sodomy is illegal in nearly every state, even be tween spouses; New York is an ex ception that does not bar it within marriage. Until a new code goes into effect next July, a too ardent lover in Kansas can get up to five years at hard labor for successfully luring his girl friend to bed, and up to 21 years for merely trying. In Indianapolis, simply entering the motel room of a person of the opposite sex (subject...