[A-List] Sexual Reform: History and Strategy

["Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

<http://montages.blogspot.com/2007/09/sexual-reform-history-and-strategy.html>
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Sexual Reform: History and Strategy

How did people repeal sodomy laws in the USA? The American Civil
Liberties Union says that "[m]ost [states] did it as part of a general
reform of criminal laws" ("Getting Rid of Sodomy Laws: History and
Strategy that Led to the Lawrence Decision," 2006). That should give
another idea to those who seek to expand personal rights and freedoms,
including those that concern sexual happiness, in Iran and other
Third-World nations, in addition to searching for ways to revise laws
and customs by reinterpreting indigenous cultural resources:
sometimes, reform of X (e.g., treatment of same-sex sex) is more
likely to be accepted if it comes as a part of a general reform,
rather than singled out for single-issue mobilization.

-- 
Yoshie