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Crompton, Louis, 1980.  "The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 6 nos. 1 and 2.

Bentham, Jeremy, 1785.  "Offenses against Oneself: Paederasty Part I".  excerpted by Louis Crompton in Journal of Homosexuality, v.3 no. 4, Summer, 1978.  Part II appears in v.4 no. 1.

Brundage, James A., 1987.  Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Bullough, Vern L., 1986.  "Lesbianism, Homosexuality, and the American Civil Liberties Union."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 13 no. 1.

Committee on Homosexual Offenses and Prostitution, 1957.  Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offenses and Prostitution.  London:  Her Majesty's Stationery Office.  Reprinted 1963 as The Wolfenden Report:    Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offenses and Prostitution.  New York:  Stein and Day.

Crompton, Louis, 1976.  "Homosexuals and the Death Penalty in Colonial America."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 1 no. 3.

Crompton, Louis, 1980.  "The Myth of Lesbian Impunity:    Capital Laws from 1270 to 1791."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 6 nos. 1 and 2.

Hendriks, Aart, Rob Tielman, and Evert van der Veen, The Third Pink Book:  A Global View of Lesbian and Gay Liberation and Oppression.  Buffalo:    Prometheus.

Hyde, H. Montgomery,  ed., 1956.  The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.  New York: University Books.

Jeffery-Poulter, Stephen, 1991.  Peers, Queers, and Commons:    The Struggle for Gay Law Reform from 1950 to the Present.  New York:   Routledge.

Moeller, Robert G., 1994.  "'The Homosexual Man is a 'Man,' the Homosexual Woman is a 'Woman'":  Sex, Society, and the Law in Postwar West Germany."  Journal of the History of Sexuality, v. 4 no. 3.

Oaks, Robert, 1979.  "Perceptions of Homosexuality by Justices of the Peace in Colonial Virginia."  Journal of Homosexuality vol.5 nos. 1 and 2.

Porter, Roy, 1985.  "'The Secrets of Generation Display'd':    Aristotle's Master-piece in Eighteenth-Century England."  Eighteenth Century Life v. 9 no. 3.

Posner, Richard A., and Katharine B. Silbaugh, 1996.  A Guide to America's Sex Laws.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Vice Commission of the City of Chicago, 1911.  The Social Evil in Chicago:  A Study of Existing Conditions with Recommenations by The Vice Commission of Chicago.  Chicago:  Gunthorp-Warren Printing Company.

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