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I am grateful to Anne Barron, Richard Collier, Patrick Thornberry, members of the School of Law staff-student workshop in contemporary issues in Law at Liverpool Polytechnic and the audience at the Men and Masculinity lecture series at the School of European Studies, University of Sussex for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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Moran, L.J. A study in the history of male sexuality in law: Non-consummation. Law Critique 1, 155–171 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02439611

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