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Deviant sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse is, in some U.S. states, a legal term for "any act of sexual gratification involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another, anus to mouth or involving invasion of the anus or vagina of one person by a foreign object manipulated by another person".
Newspaper clip: "Wanted 60,000 girls to take the place of 60,000 white slaves who will die this year" The Mann Act, previously called the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910, is a United States federal law, passed June 25, 1910 (ch. 395, 36 Stat. 825; codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. §§ 2421–2424).
The Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885 raised it to 16. [13] [14] In 1917, a bill raising the age of consent in Great Britain and Ireland from 16 to 17 was defeated by only one vote. [15] In Northern Ireland in 1950, the legislature of Northern Ireland passed a law called Children and Young Persons Act in 1950 that raised the age of consent ...
Abortion laws vary widely among countries and territories, and have changed over time. Such laws range from abortion being freely available on request, to regulation or restrictions of various kinds, to outright prohibition in all circumstances.
The Model Penal Code, promulgated by the American Law Institute to help state legislatures update and standardise their laws, [69] includes categories of theft by unlawful taking or by unlawfully disposing of property, theft by deception , theft by extortion, theft by failure to take measures to return lost or mislaid or mistakenly delivered ...
Lingchi (IPA: [lǐŋ.ʈʂʰɨ̌], Chinese: 凌遲), usually translated "slow slicing" or "death by a thousand cuts", was a form of torture and execution used in China from around the 10th century until the early 20th century.
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