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This article extends analysis of legal and social norms to sexual behavior laws, highlighting trends over two centuries.
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.
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