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US REGULATORY & CODE DIRECTORY
Sex Offense Laws & Codes
- Commonwealth legislation
including
adultery,
polygamy, and the
act
against
arbitrary interferences with privacy
- New South Wales
acts including several
sexual assault laws,
incest,
bestiality,
necrophilia,
child prostitution,
bigamy,
obscene exposure,
prostitution, and
obscenity
Canada
- Alaska
- Arizona
- California Code
on
sexual assault and crimes against
public decency and
domestic violence, and a Santa Monica
sign ordinance
- Georgia Sexual Offenses
- Idaho
- Kansas Sex Offenses
- Louisiana, Shreveport
- Missouri Revised Statutes
Sexual Offenses,
Prostitution,
Offenses Against the Family,
Pornography
- Nebraska
- New York
- Virginia
Criminal Sexual Assault,
Sexual Offenses, Prostitution, etc,
Family Offenses,
Obscenity and Related Offenses
- Revised Code of Washington
- West Virginia
sexual assault laws.
- Wyoming State Statutes
Crimes and Offenses, a very large text file containing Chapter 2 Article 3 - Sexual Assault, Chapter 4 Articles 1-4 - Prostitution, Public Indecency, Obscenity, Bigamy and Incest.
Related information
- Sexual Assault Information Page
Polyamory - Religion and Law
Religion and Law about non-monogamous relationships
- The Code of Hammurabi
The ability to take a second wife was restricted in some ways. 114k
- Judaism
- Bible (old testament)
- Genesis 4: Lamech took two wives
- Genesis 28: Esau takes an additional wife, Mahalath
- Genesis 29: Jacob, Leah, and Rachel
- Genesis 30: Jacob, Leah, Rachel, Bilhah, and Zilpah
- Genesis 36: Esau takes two more Canaanite wives
- Deuteronomy 17: A king of Israel shall not "multiply wives unto himself"
A law more often breached than observed.
- Deuteronomy 21: inheritance law when a man has two wives
- Judges 8: Gideon had many wives
- I Samuel 1: Elkanah and his wives Hannah & Peninnah
- I Samuel 25: David takes Abigail and Ahinoam as wives
- II Samuel 5: David takes further wives and concubines
- II Samuel 11: David gets Bathsheba pregnant, has her husband Uriah killed, and marries her
- I Kings 11: Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines
- I Kings 20: Implies King Ahab had multiple wives
- II Kings 24: King Jehoiachin had multiple wives
- I Chronicles 2: a lot of begatting via multiple wives
- I Chronicles 4: Ashur had two wives, Helah and Naarah
- I Chronicles 8: Shaharaim had two wives, Hushim and Baara
- I Chronicles 14: David takes more wive at Jerusalem
- II Chronicles 11: Rehoboam had 18 wives and 60 concubines
- II Chronicles 13: Abijah marries 14 wives
- II Chronicles 21: King Jehoram had multiple wives
- II Chronicles 24: Jehoiada had two wives
- Daniel 5: King Belshazzar had wives and concubines
- Bigamy and Polygamy in Jewish Law
- Polygamy in Jewish History
- soc.culture.jewish FAQ section on polygamy
If you read the details in the preceding two references, you'll
see that this FAQ's section on polygamy is approximately correct,
but overly simplistic.
- What about Abraham's Polygamy?
- Bible (new testament)
- Catholicism
- Pope Leo XIII, "Arcanum Divinae Sapientiae" (1880)
- Pope Pius XI, "Casti connubii" (1930)
"it is clear that legitimately constituted authority has the right
and therefore the duty to restrict, to prevent, and to punish those
base unions which are opposed to reason and to nature. ... Nor did
Christ Our Lord wish only to condemn any form of polygamy or polyandry,
as they are called, whether successive or simultaneous, and every
other external dishonorable act, but, in order that the sacred bonds
of marriage may be guarded absolutely inviolate, He forbade also even
willful thoughts and desires of such like things"
- Mormonism
- Lutheranism
- Article XXIII: Of the Marriage of Priests in Luther's
The Augsburg Confession (1530)
gives Luther's general reasoning about marriage among priests.
- Despite the fact that Luther himself said that he could not
prohibit polygamy on scriptural grounds, the
Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
defines marriage as "the lifelong union of one
man and one woman entered into by mutual consent". However,
they also say that "The essence of marriage does not consist
in legal requirements nor in ecclesiastical ceremonies. ...
Not the pronouncement of a minister but the consent of the
partners belongs to the essence of marriage." Amen to that!
- Islam
- Buddhism Virtual Library at ANU Canberra
- Discordianism
- Polygamy Laws of various jurisdictions
- Australia -
a "union in the nature of a marriage", entered into outside Australia,
is deemed to be a marriage.
- European Union -
Resolution A3-0028/94 approved on 8 Feb 1994 invited European countries
"to promulgate legislation extending the equal application of the right
to marriage, adoption and foster-parenting laws to same-sex families".
However, there was much resistance to this idea; for example in
the City of Verona.
- United States
- Alaska -
"unlawful marrying" is a class A misdemeanor (Title 11 ch. 51 sec. 140)
- California -
Bigamy is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand
dollars ($10,000) or by imprisonment in a county jail not
exceeding one year or in the state prison.
- Florida -
bigamy is a felony of the third degree,
regardless of whether all parties desire it or not.
- Georgia -
bigamy is punishable by 1 to 10 years imprisonment,
regardless of whether all parties desire it or not.
- Indiana -
bigamy is a class D felony (Section 35-46-1-2).
- Kansas -
bigamy is a class E felony,
regardless of whether all parties desire it or not.
It is apparently legal to have been multiply married
outside the state of Kansas, as long as you don't
cohabit within Kansas.
- Missouri -
bigamy is a class A misdemeanor.
- Washington -
bigamy is a class C felony.
- The legal
- Text of the 1986
Supreme Court decision upholding the Georgia sodomy law
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