Table of Contents

Front

AUTHOR'S NOTES

PART I
THE BASIC PREMISE
  • An Overview
  • What Are Consensual Crimes?
  • Separation of Society and State
  • Personal Morality Versus Governmental Morality
  • Relationship

    PART II
    WHY LAWS AGAINST CONSENSUALACTIVITIES ARE NOT A GOOD IDEA
  • It's Un-American
  • Laws against Consensual Activities Are Unconstitutional
  • Laws against Consensual Activities Violate the Separation of Church and State, Threatening the Freedom of and from Religion
  • Laws against Consensual Activities Are Opposed to the Principles of Private Property, Free Enterprise, Capitalism, and the Open Market
  • Enforcing Laws against Consensual Activities is Very Expensive
  • Enforcing Laws against Consensual Activities Destroys People's Lives
  • Intermission to Part II
  • Consensual Crimes Encourage Real Crimes
  • Consensual Crimes Corrupt Law Enforcement
  • The Cops Can't Catch 'Em; the Courts Can'tHandle 'Em; the Prisons Can't Hold 'Em
  • Consensual Crimes Promote Organized Crime
  • Consensual Crimes Corrupt the Freedom of the Press
  • Laws against Consensual Activities Teach Irresponsibility
  • Laws against Consensual Activities Are Too Randomly Enforced to Be Either a Deterrent or Fair
  • Laws against Consensual Activities Discriminate against the Poor, Minorities, and Women
  • Problems Sometimes Associated with Consensual Activities Cannot Be Solved While They Are Crimes
  • Laws against Consensual Activities Create a Society of Fear, Hatred, Bigotry, Oppression, and Conformity; a Culture Opposed to Personal Expression, Diversity, Freedom, Choice and Growth

    PART III
    A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CONSENSUAL CRIMES
  • A Closer Look at the Consensual Crimes
  • Gambling
  • Drugs
  • How and Why Drugs Became Illegal
  • Opiates
  • Cocaine, Crack, Amphetamines
  • Psychedelics
  • Marijuana
  • Religious and Psychologically Therapeutic Use of Drugs
  • Regenerative Use of Drugs and Other Unorthodox Medical Practices
  • Prostitution
  • Pornography, Obscenity, Etc.
  • The Problem with Pornography
  • The Problem with Violence
  • The Problem with Censorship
  • The F-WORD
  • Violations of Marriage; Adultry, Fornication Cohabitation, Bigamy, and Polygamy
  • Homosexuality
  • Unconventional Religious Practices
  • Unpopular Religious Practices
  • Suicide and Assisted Suicide
  • The Titanic Laws: Public Drunkenness, Loitering, Vagrancy, Seat Belts, Motorcycle Helmets, Public Nudity, Transvestism

    PART IV
    SIX CHAPTERS IN SEARCH OF A SHORTER BOOK
  • The Enlightenment or We Wer So Much Older Then; We're Younger Than That Now
  • Prohibition: A Lesson in the Futility (and Danger) of Prohibiting
  • What Jesus and the Bible Really Said about Consensual Crimes
  • Old Testament Admonitions
  • Jesus of Nazareth and Consensual Crime
  • Jesus on Sex and Marriage
  • Jesus and the Separation of Church and State
  • His Master's Voice?
  • Jerry & Pat
  • Traditional Family Values
  • Putting the "Problem" in Perspective
  • Hypocrites

    PART V
    WHAT TO DO?
  • Education, Not Legislation
  • A Call to My Media Brethren
  • Protective Technology
  • Hemp for Victory
  • A State-By-State Look at Consensual Crime
  • We Must All Hang Together
  • The Politics of Change

    About the Author

    Acknowledgments