Name, Shame and Blame: Criminalising Consensual Sex in Papua New Guinea

by Christine Stewart

Papua New Guinea is one of the many former British Commonwealth colonies which maintain the criminalisation of the sexual activities of two groups, despite the fact that the sex takes place between consenting adults in private: sellers of sex and males who have sex with males. The English common law system was imposed on the colonies with little regard for the social regulation and belief systems of the colonised, and in most instances, was retained...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925021211
• ISBN13: 9781925021219
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Australian National University, Research Scho
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.8"