extramarital relations

While MBS, as the de facto ruler is known, has eased many social regulations, alcohol is still banned and extramarital relations and homosexuality remain punishable as “moral crimes.”

Justice Sotomayor quoted from the work of the sociologist Gunnar Myrdal: “No other way of crossing the color line is so attended by the emotion commonly associated with violating a social taboo as intermarriage and extramarital relations between a Negro man and a white woman.”

But he adds that the state's laws against extramarital relations and breaching social mores would probably be co-opted into prosecuting any gay sexual act.

In 2019, Vance led an effort to subpoena Trump for eight years of tax returns in order to uncover new evidence regarding hush money that Trump allegedly paid to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal––two women with whom the former president had extramarital relations.

Hajar Moradi, an Iranian-Canadian artist in Toronto who helped create the petition, said it was impossible for women to get justice in Iran, where they can be criminalized for simply reporting sexual assault, because extramarital relations are illegal.