Sex and the law

Jessica’s Law places a 2000 foot residency restriction on registered sex offenders, barring them from living near areas where children gather, such as schools, daycare, parks, and places of worship (Bonnar-Kidd, 2010). Registered juvenile sex offenders may be subject to placement in foster care if they are not allowed to reside with underage siblings or near other children in their neighborhood. They may also face removal from school to comply with the laws (Lehrer, 2016). Unintended…

Would you have sex with a complete stranger to save your sex life? Would you pay hundreds of dollars to fulfill your sexual needs? What would you do to save your sex life if it was diminishing, and diminishing fast? Sex Surrogates are a hands on form type of psychotherapy, they interact with sexual activity rather than just talking. They work with sex therapists and under their supervision. There are only twenty sex surrogates in the United States. This is because, only twenty surrogates are…

Legal feminism is able to evaluate the structures and laws of society to pin point the inequality placed upon women. This inequality that I speak of has been created and enforced by those that partake patriarchy. Women have been placed in a role of subordination for centuries, as the world progresses so do social views, however, there is still an inequality between the sexes in terms of multiple aspects. In the next chapter I will use feminist jurisprudence and the dominance approach to feminism…

Same Sex Marriage Marriage is a legal union between two people. When these two people are of the same gender, it is called same sex marriage. Same sex marriage laws are accomplished through court rulings based on the constitutions, or through a direct popular vote. As of 2015, same sex marriage is legal in some countries; however, it is explicitly banned in some countries. Seventeen countries, including the United States, legally recognize same sex marriage (Flores, 2015). Netherlands was the…

arrested after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Against a Supreme Court decision, she continued to withhold issuing the marriage licenses, leading to her arrest for contempt of court. The Supreme Court decision took place in June, ruling that same-sex couples can marry nationwide and that states cannot ban same-sex marriage. Her refusal was strongly fueled by her Christian beliefs that oppose the right to same-sex marriage, even though some major political figures…

democratic system should decide for gay marriage law. In Chief Justice Roberts’s dissenting opinion, he has delineated the supreme court’s position for gay marriage law. Therefore, he insisted that states government should reserve their states’ power for the gay marriage law. Due to the belief of social policy and fairness, many same-sex couples had appeal for the nationwide same-sex marriage legal approval. Unfortunately, they are bewildered on United States law system, the supreme court…

Florida State Representative has introduced a law that would arrest someone using a single sex restroom if they were the opposite sex. The author states that this could be a problem for transgender males or females who have already went through the necessary steps to permanently change their sex. Florida's state representative Frank Artiles is worried about the crimes that can take place by allowing a transgender to use the restroom of the opposite sex. The author argues, that anyone wishing to…

Heather Smith, Sex Trafficking: Trends, Challenges and Limitations of International Law In her article Heather Smith argues that although international law has been introduced to try to eliminate human trafficking there is disproportional addressing of the issues at hand that has left a door open to allow sex trafficking to continue. Smith begins by asking where we draw the line between voluntary and coerced migrants, who might have initially agreed to cross a border extra legally, but is then…

a different message of whether same sex marriage should continue to be valid or recognized in California. A yes vote on this measure means that citizens are against recognizing same sex marriage in California. The yes ad on proposition 8 portrays the idea of recognizing same sex marriage as something that will cause multiple consequences such as impacting churches, children, adoption, etc. The participants of the ad use strong vocabulary to show that same sex marriage should not continue to be…

yours can finally marry their same- sex partner. Eager to wed, the couple organizes a small ceremony at the local court house. They plan a reception afterwards and their families fly into town to celebrate with them. However, once they get to the courthouse, all of the officials refuse to marry the couple based on their religious views. This scenario is currently taking place in the McCrory County of North Carolina, where every official refuses to perform a same-sex wedding, despite its…