Concept
Sex and the law
Overview
legal regulation of human sexual interaction
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In both cases the marriage is influenced by the class environment of the participants, and in this respect it always remains conventional. This conventionalism often enough results in the most pronounced prostitution--sometimes of both parties, more commonly of the woman. She is distinguished from a courtisane only in that she does not offer her body for money by the hour like a commodity, but sells it into slavery…
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
Close in meaning to Sex and the law; the term itself is not named.
v. 7). In order to prevent these great evils, and to effect the great boon that all men should know their relationship to each other, prostitutes (Deut. xxiii. 17) were not tolerated, and sexual intercourse was only permitted when man has chosen a certain female, and married her openly; for if it sufficed merely to choose her, many a person would bring a prostitute into his house at a certain time agreed upon…
Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed
Close in meaning to Sex and the law; the term itself is not named.
Can this law be applied in the case in which the adult female possesses characters not possessed by the male: for instance, the high degree of intuitive power of reading the mental states of others and of concealing her own--characters which Mr. Spencer shows to be accounted for by the relations between the husband and wife in a state of savagery. If so, the man should resemble "the young of both sexes" in the…
Charles Darwin, More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
Close in meaning to Sex and the law; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Sex and the law
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Place in the tradition
Part of Will Durant.