TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stone,Geoffrey R.
TI  - Sex and the constitution: sex, religion, and law from America's origins to the twenty-first century 
SN  - 9780871404695
AV  - KF9325 .S76 2017
U1  - 345.7302/53 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Liveright Publishing Corporation
KW  - Sex and law
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Sexual rights
KW  - Sex
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The ancient world : the triumph of Augustine -- The power of revealed truth -- England, the enlightenment, and "the age of eros" -- From puritanism to the pursuit of happiness -- The world of the framers : a Christian nation? -- "The fundamental maxims of free government" -- The second great awakening -- "Tending to corrupt the public morals" : the meaning of obscenity -- Contraception and abortion : from the founding to the 1950s -- "Strange freaks of nature" -- Coming out  -- Obscenity and the First Amendment : "a corrupting and debasing" influence -- The end of obscenity?  -- Sex and speech in the Twenty-First century -- The constitution and the contraception -- The road to Roe -- Roe and beyond -- "The gay moment" -- A right to "retain their dignity" -- Same-sex marriage and the constitution
ER  -