ABSTRACT
Sex is a pervasive factor in human behavior. Because of the mission of law enforcement, it is inevitable that the police will become involved in a wide variety of sexual investigations. Sexuality encompasses such an array of acts that the law cannot cover all possibilities. In fact, some sexual behavior bears no obvious relation to what most people would call sex. Sex is like –re. Controlled, it provides many bene–ts and high levels of pleasure. Out of control it causes shame, fear, guilt, injury, and death. Nowhere else in the law do we see such an incredible e¡ort to censor human behavior. “Our own culture is ožen criticized for being obsessed with sex. Whether or not that criticism is justi–ed, it is certainly true that a very large part of our value system, our shared heritage of moral codes, and our legal system is devoted to the control of sexual activity” (Stone and Deluca, 1980, p. 186).
