Ardor in the court! : sex and the law / Jeffrey Miller.

Toronto : ECW Press, 2002.

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Sex and law -- History.

Sex crimes -- Law and legislation.

Sex and law -- History.

Legal anecdotes and humour.

Legal miscellany.

Introduction: Somewhat emetic, nowhere aphrodisiac

1. Consenting adults, more or less

2. All in and beyond the family: adultery, criminal conversation, and other complications of family law

3. Beyond marriage and the missionary position

4. Persons public, persons private: the law of indecency

5. I know it when I see it: pornography and free expression

6. The wages of sin: prostitution and the sex trade

7. Crime and controversy

8. You say "cocotte", I say "harlot": imputations of unchastity.

Includes index.

9781550225280

xvii, 283 p.