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Stuprum

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Stu´prum
n.1.Stupration.


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Free youths and subordinate citizens were of course protected from unwanted or violent homosexual advances by laws about stuprum.
The significance of legally recognized unions in moral legislation was underscored by the legal definition of stuprum and its consequences under law where, the unsanctioned sexual conduct of unmarried women and widows was punished.
The Decretum includes a specific reference to the sexual violation of boys, probably meaning young adolescents, covered under the heading De Stuprum Pueri.
 
 
 
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