CJS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Nationstates, Trans Woman
Document Summary
Throughout history and across the globe, queer people have had their bodies regulated, been arrested, and have faced punishment for no other reason than their sexual and gender identities and behaviors. Sodomy: sexual intercourse involving anal or oral copulation. In the usa, antisodomy laws were in place until 2003, but similar laws persist around the globe and citizens in the us continue to be affected by legislation of the past. It is the pervasive proscription of queer bodies, behaviors, and rights that make criminal legal systems around the world the primary institutions through which queerness is socially controlled. Nearly half (78) of the countries around the world have laws prohibiting the mere act of consensual sex between members of the same sex, at least five of which impose the punishment of death. All of these laws appear to stem from and promote a global culture of homophobia and a forced value of compulsory heterosexuality. necessarily reflect a global culture.
