Chapter 20: Sex and the Law

Question 1

sex between two unmarried persons

Answer 1

fornication

Question 2

the decision not to criminalize behavior per se and instead criminalize conduct that is visible to the outside world

Answer 2

Victorian compromise

Question 3

nonconsensual oral, anal, or vaginal penetration, obtained by force, by threat of bodily harm, or when the victim is incapable of giving consent

Answer 3

rape

Question 4

sexual relations between persons closely related to each other

Answer 4

incest

Question 5

unmarried persons living together (with sexual relations assumed)

Answer 5

cohabitation

Question 6

intercourse involving persons at least one of whom is married to someone else

Answer 6

adultery

Question 7

originally “crimes against nature”; in contemporary laws, oral and anal intercourse

Answer 7

sodomy

Question 8

showing one’s genitals in a public place, to passerby; indecent exposure

Answer 8

exhibitionism

Question 9

secretly watching people who are nude

Answer 9

coyeurism

Question 10

the exchange of sex for money or other payment such as drugs

Answer 10

prostitution

Question 11

that which is offensive to decency or modesty, or calculated to arouse sexual excitement or lust

Answer 11

obsenity

Question 12

removing an act from those prohibited by law; ceasing to define it as a crime

Answer 12

decriminalization