ABSTRACT
No one wants the government peeking into our bedrooms or listening in on our conversations or looking at our emails. If we cross-dress, masturbate, or have oral sex, should we be vulnerable to the heavy hand of the law? When sex enters into the discussion, we can never know how anyone, even those we would expect to be impartial, will react. Nevertheless, social attitudes about sexual behaviors, which vacillate over time between abhorrence and tolerance, inªuence the shape and substance of laws about sex. These laws, as well as deŠnitions of sexual behavior, are an ever-evolving process, subject to the vagaries of the political, religious, and social milieu of the time. Each culture or community can determine for themselves if a particular sexual behavior is legal or illegal, functional or dysfunctional, good or bad.
