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The Origin of Queer Theory: Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex"

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The History of Sex in the United States

The first federal anti obscenity law in the United States was passed in 1873. The prohibition of materials used for and information about contraception and abortion had been ruled unconstitutional by 1975. Although sodomy statutes date from older strata of the law when elements of canon law were adopted into civil codes, most of the laws used to arrest homosexuals and prostitutes come out of the Victorian campaigns against white slavery.

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