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Sex for sale. A Boston criminal lawyer's view of prostitution and the new internet sex trade industry

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The city of Boston used to have an area known as the ?Combat Zone?. It was around the theatre district. In fact, the building that now houses the Department of Motor Vehicles used to be a store selling xxx-rated movies and books and prostitutes prowling the streets. That has all been ?cleaned out? from the area the chase of crimes of morality is still on. Chapter 272 of the Massachusetts General Laws deals with these so-called ?CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY, MORALITY, DECENCY AND GOOD ORDER?. Prepare yourself, though, before you read it. For example, ?fornication?, otherwise known as sexual intercourse between two unmarried consenting adults, is still on the books as illegal and punishable by jail time. Adultery is still a crime which can send a defendant away for two years and this law has been upheld as Constitutional by the Supreme Judicial Court as late as 1983! Blasphemy, however, is only punishable for one year incarceration, so we may be lightening up after all...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).