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During the nineteen-sixties and seventies, a construction of homosexuality as a psychiatric illness began to emerge, and in the nineties gay and lesbian sexual relations were criminalized under the "hooligan" law.
"The majority of the women and girls interviewed by Human Rights Watch for this report appear to have been victims of acts criminalized under the E.V.A.W. law, although those who had committed these crimes were rarely arrested, prosecuted, or convicted," the report said.
Obtaining videos like this graphic example captured by Mercy for Animals in 2015 is now criminalized under North Carolina's Ag-Gag laws.
In the UK, under the 2003 Sexual Offense Act, the act of public masturbation is often criminalized under Section 66 the crime of exposure.
Jamaica has been heralded as one of the most homophobic places in the world, where being gay or lesbian is criminalized under "abominable crime" legislation with a punishment of up to 10 years of hard labor.
Though homosexuality isn't technically criminalized under Indonesian law, in many states, such as south Sumatra, anti-prostitution laws (where "prostitution" is widely defined to include same-sex intercourse) are used to limit the rights of LGBT people, and according to activists, the community is marginalized even in bigger cities like Jakarta.
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Rafique and others argue that homosexuality became criminalized only under European colonialism.
The same country that just allowed a senator to marry an innocent fourteen year-old girl, has now criminalized homosexuality under the false disguise of same-sex marriage.
Much behaviour that is criminalized is done under the threat of imprisonment and imprisonment can cut off a very large range of options; or it can reduce them considerably by various forms of disruption or destruction: of family life, deep personal relations, work opportunities, pursuit of valuable outdoor activities, political participation and so on.
What is clear from all these examples is that the U.S. government criminalizes hacking under all circumstances, unwilling to differentiate between criminal activities, playful pursuits, and political causes.
After Colorado voters legalized cannabis for adult use, the legislature voted to criminalize driving under the influence of marijuana, using 5 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood as the cut-off point for impairment (which is problematic for a host of reasons, and daily users have tested as high as 13.5 ng/ml while completely sober).
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