MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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What is sex? HIV case forces Florida Supreme Court to define intercourse
By barefooted on Wed, 02/04/2015 - 4:08pm |Does the legal definition of sexual intercourse apply to homosexual sex? That's the question facing the Florida Supreme Court as it considers the case of a Key West man charged with violating the state's HIV disclosure law. He didn't tell his male partner that he was infected. His attorney asserts that the Florida law as written, which says it's a crime to withhold the information only if "sexual intercourse" takes place, applies specifically to sex between a man and a woman.
The prosecution's case relies on the contention that the term was clearly intended to refer to both heterosexual and homosexual activity.
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/04/what-is-sex-hiv-florida-supreme-court-define-intercourse
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