Sentence examples for acts of consensual from inspiring English sources
They are acts of consensual making.
Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White defined "the issue" — leeringly, sarcastically, obtusely, and repeatedly — as "whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy," or protects "a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy," or extends "a fundamental right to homosexuals to engage in acts of consensual sodomy".
That year, in Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court held that "statutes criminalizing private acts of consensual sodomy between adults are inconsistent with the protections of liberty" in the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause and thus unconstitutional.
After the shocking 1986 Supreme Court decision in Bowers v. Hardwick, which denied that gays had a constitutional right to engage in acts of consensual sodomy, Mrs. King increasingly added her crystal-clear voice to campaigns waged by LGBT organizations and gay-friendly legislators.
For example, an act of consensual sex (however exploitative) with a girl aged 16 years or over was not counted as an incident but a rape was.
Cortines has said that he and Graham engaged in an act of consensual "adult behavior," which Cortines characterized as bad judgment on his part.
Under the Malaysian penal code all acts of sodomy, whether consensual or not, are criminal offences.
A possible solution to the problem would be for a competent authority to distinguish between acts of crime and consensual sex at an early stage.
Was any investigation done, he asked, to determine whether those pregnancies were the result of "consensual acts"?
While the government has stated it would not be "proactive" in enforcing Section 377A in cases of consensual acts that take place in private, the section's continued presence provides a focus for gay rights' campaigners.
Of course, as soon as it was decriminalized there was not an increase in sodomy - there was only decrease in the prosecution of consensual acts.
