Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society

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A refresher course on rights and personal freedom. What is your position on prostitution, pornography, gambling and other victimless crimes? This book will make readers consider their rights and the rights of others in a more humanistic and caring way. (Prelude Press) There is no need to read this entire book. Title Page Copyright Author’s Notes PART I: THE BASIC PREMISE An Overview What Are Consensual Crimes? Separation of Society and State Personal Morality Versus Governmental Morality Relationship PART II: WHY LAWS AGAINST CONSENSUAL ACTIVITIES ARE NOT A GOOD IDEA It’s Un-American Laws Against Consensual Activities Are Unconstitutional Laws Against Consensual Activities Violate the Separation of Church and State, Threatening the Freedom of and from Religion Laws against Consensual Activities Are Opposed to the Principles of Private Property, Free Enterprise, Capitalism, and the Open Market Enforcing Laws against Consensual Activities Is Very Expensive Enforcing Laws against Consensual Activities Destroys People’s Lives Intermission To Part II Consensual Crimes Encourage Real Crimes Consensual Crimes Corrupt Law Enforcement The Cops Can’t Catch ’em; the Courts Can’t Handle ’em; the Prisons Can’t Hold ’em Consensual Crimes Promote Organized Crime Consensual Crimes Corrupt the Freedom of The Press Laws against Consensual Activities Teach Irresponsibility Laws against Consensual Activities Are Too Randomly Enforced to Be Either a Deterrent or Fair Laws against Consensual Activities Discriminate against the Poor, Minorities, and Women Problems Sometimes Associated with Consensual Activities Cannot Be Solved While They Are Crimes Laws Against Consensual Activities Create a Society of Fear, Hatred, Bigotry, Oppression, and Conformity; a Culture Opposed to Personal Expression, Diversity, Freedom, Choice, and Growth PART III: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CONSENSUAL CRIMES A Closer Look at the Consensual Crimes Gambling Drugs Religious and Psychologically Therapeutic Use of Drugs Regenerative Use of Drugs and Other Unorthodox Medical Practices Prostitution Pornography, Obscenity, Etc. Violations of Marriage: Adultery, Fornication, Cohabitation, Bigamy, and Polygamy Homosexuality Unconventional Religious Practices Unpopular Political Views Suicide and Assisted Suicide The Titanic Laws: Public Drunkenness, Loitering, Vagrancy, Seat Belts, Motorcycle Helmets, Public Nudity, Transvestism PART IV: SIX CHAPTERS IN SEARCH OF A SHORTER BOOK The Enlightenment or We Were So Much Older Then; We’re Younger Than That Now Prohibition: A Lesson in the Futility (and Danger) of Prohibiting What Jesus and the Bible Really Said about Consensual Crimes Traditional Family Values Putting the “Problem” in Perspective Hypocrites Part V: WHAT TO DO? Education, Not Legislation A Call to My Media Brethren Protective Technology Hemp For Victory A State-by-State Look at Consensual Crime We Must All Hang Together The Politics of Change About the Author Acknowledgments