Sex offenders now constitute a new and distinct legal class and are subject to never-ending sanctions in separate and still quickly evolving legal system that functions outside conventional limits. More than simply a "moral panic" a concept that implies temporal limits the West's obsessive focus on sexual danger to minors, now a generation old, with no signs of abating, suggests a permanent state of emergency, to invoke the term of authoritarian German political theorist Carl Schmitt, in which sex offenders fill the role of an internal enemy, another Schmittian term. The "sex offender system" buttresses the state's battle against an internal, sexually defined enemy. In the current political climate, scope for further imposition on sex offenders of regulations and prohibitions appears to be limitless. Sex offenders in West, and especially in Anglophone countries, increasingly have a legal status like that of the ancient Roman homo sacer, a person exiled from civil and sacred obligation, which anyone could kill without penalty.