But these things, again, could be policed with laws.
Not that these frontiers have ever been policed with much rigor.
The sex lives of the teenagers in Magaluf are policed with all the prurience – and hypocrisy – we can summon.
Outside the capital, the entire territory of England and Wales is policed with the help of just 4,128 more armed officers.
Curiously, in fact, it's almost exclusively women who are policed with the shouts of "it's worse elsewhere so think yourself lucky".
These games, policed with machine guns and bomb-squad dogs, are rapidly becoming less of a refuge and part of the battlefield.
There, police entered into dialogue with protesters before the event, policed with a "community-style" operation and used virtually no surveillance, stop and search or riot equipment.
In England between the 13th and 16th centuries, extramarital sex was policed with such energy that up to 90% of the litigation handled by church courts was about combating fornication, adultery, sodomy and prostitution.
The Puerto Rican day parade has always been policed with a relatively light touch; this year the touch was too light.The political reactions have been little short of bizarre.
The area is heavily policed with floodlit observation posts and army checkpoints, plus settler vigilantes who routinely vandalise, and sometimes burn, Palestinian properties.In immediate reprisal for the ambush, the Israeli army razed several Palestinian houses on the site.
Finally, the crown was hampered by the rules of court that allow it to make an opening statement but require it then to present items of evidence without any comment as to why they matter, a rule policed with ferocious efficiency by the Rolls-Royce defence teams.
