‘Censorship=mission impossible?’: a postcolonial same sex erotic discourse on Hong Kong porn law

Chiu, Man Chung

doi:10.1016/j.ijsl.2004.02.001

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Sexuality and the Law

Moran¹

2007

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

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Reference to sexuality in the day‐to‐day operation of the law is coterminous with the emergence of sexuality as a category in the wider society. However, its explicit appearance in the official texts of law such as constitutions, codes of law, and statutes is relatively recent. For example, some of the most familiar legal terms associated with sexuality (e.g., buggery, sodomy, and indecency), phrases such as age of consent, or other key legal terms (e.g., justice, equity, marriage, spouse, parent, contract, libel, slander, property interest, and the right to privacy) make no explicit reference to sexuality. Sexuality is read into these legal concepts. An example of the emergence of sexuality as a legal term of art is the phrase sexual orientation. This phrase made its first formal appearance in the official texts of law in 1973.

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