Legal Regulation of Sexual Behaviour
7. Canada is the one of few countries with the legal treatment of incest. A person who committed this type of crime can be punished by up to 14 years' imprisonment. I believe this incest is a serious crime and it is the right way to prevent people from committing incest which is potentially dangerous.
It can cause huge psychological problems. Most of the cases of this type of sexual behaviour are connected with children. It is common knowledge that early sexual experience can be harmful for a kid and is inappropriate. That is one of the reasons why in Canada a person who commits incest with someone under the age of 16 is liable to a minimum imprisonment of 5 years. Besides, sexual interaction between adults and children often includes rape. Consequences of those actions can influence of kids’ future relationship. Most of them find it really hard to start sexual relationship with loved ones because of memories of rape or incest. The most traumatic aspect of incest is that child is being sexually involved with a relative, one of the closest people to him, who should be associated with love and safety, but is associated with violence instead. Harm done to people due to incest should be punished, that is why I agree with Canadian government on the legal treatment of incest.
Another country with legal treatment of incest is Australia. Sexual relationship and marriage between relatives (even if their connection traced through adoption) is a crime in all the states, but punishments vary. For example, a maximum penalty for incest in South Australia is 10 years imprisonment in South Australia, 20 years in Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory, 25 years imprisonment in other regions. Queensland has the most serious penalty for incest which is life imprisonment. However Australian laws permit marriage between an aunt or uncle and a nephew or niece, if both of them are currently 18 or older. Incest is strongly condemned in Australia and victims of that type of crime get psychological help in order to function normally in the future.
9. It is difficult to have the legal treatment of pornography because of lack of agreement what is meant by the term. In Canada the term “pornography” can be seen in section 163.1 of the Criminal Code, which gives a definition to “child pornography.” Pornographic material with consenting adults is involved in the “obscenity” provision of the Criminal Code (section 163), so in contrast to child pornography, pornographic material featuring consenting adults is legal in Canada if it is not deemed to be obscene. To my mind, this way of legal treatment is totally understandable and I agree with the fact that pornography itself should not be illegal unless it includes children or violence or undue exploitation of sex.
A number of court cases have dealt with pornography. A controversial case that happened …
