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Strange laws, also called weird laws, dumb laws, futile laws, unusual laws, unnecessary laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law). A number of books and websites purport to list dumb laws.
The Laws of Life: Halliday Sutherland: 1935 Non-fiction Banned in the Irish Free State for discussing sex education and Calendar-based contraceptive methods – even though The Laws of Life had been granted a Cum permissu superiorum endorsement by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster. [169] Honourable Estate: Vera Brittain: 1936 Novel
In the first eight months of 2022, the ALA received 681 reports of book challenges targeting 1,651 unique books. [23] Most of the books have to do with race, sex, sexual orientation, and gender. [20] [21] [22] [14] [24] Parents, teachers, students, and other stakeholders commonly express concerns over the works students read in schools.
Wikipedia offers a full list of writers whose creations can be categorized as “weird fiction” – from H. P. Lovecraft to Ray Bradbury – and even within this subgenre, you have plenty of ...
It may be 2021, but some of the antiquated and downright bizarre laws that remain in place around the world (or that have recently been enacted) would make you think otherwise. From bans on what ...
School districts in 26 states have banned or opened investigations into more than 1,100 books, according to an April 2022 report from PEN America. More states banning books as restrictive ...
[23] [24] [25] A brief note on non-U.S. perspectives: while other countries do not necessarily weigh the interests of trademark owners and other speakers in the same way, noncommercial and expressive uses may receive protection under other nations' laws as well.
Most states that still have adultery laws classify them as misdemeanors, but Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Michigan treat adultery as felony […] The post After 117 years, adultery on the brink of ...