Discuss the suitability of the law to deal with the issues surrounding the prohibition of 'private'
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Discuss the suitability of the law to deal with the issues surrounding the prohibition of 'private' "The present state of the law on sexual offenses reveals anomalies which demonstrate that the policy factors have not been fully thought through and rationally applied." (Hughes, 1962: p.685).1 Three decades later, little has changed. We are still questioning the ability of the law to deal with offenses and practices of a sexual nature. In order to answer the above question, I will firstly leave aside the question of how privacy should be defined, and for the sake of simplicity, take it to define what goes on in the context of one's own home. Included under the heading of sexual practices prohibited by law are a wide variety of offenses, including incest, sexual practices involving minors, acts of anal intercourse between heterosexual partners, and sadomasochism (hereafter SM). I will be attempting, in the following few...

