seduction-laws


1	Laws criminalizing men seducting women (crime of seduction) by state, ca. 1965
2	For related discussion, see:
3	http://purplemotes.net/2015/07/12/criminalizing-seduction/
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5	ln	state	pop 1965 (ths)	seduction crime law	marriage a defense	summary statistis for U.S. seduction law
6	1	AL	3,443	ALA. CODE, tit. 14, § 419 (1958)	yes	pop. covered by seduction laws	83%
7	2	AK	271	ALASKA STAT. § 11.40.070 (1962)	yes	share with marriage defense (with law)	89%
8	3	AZ	1,584	ARIZ. REV. STAT. ANN. § 13-202 (1956)	yes
9	4	AR	1,894	ARK. STAT. ANN. § 41-3408 (1947)	yes	states with seduction crime law	37
10	5	CA	18,585	CAL. PEN. CODE § 268	yes	states with marriage defense	31
11	6	CO	1,985	COLO. REV. STAT. ANN. § 40-9-7 (1963)	yes
12	7	CT	2,857	CONN. GEN. STAT. ANN. § 53-224 (1960)			thousands
13	8	DE	507			total state population	192,663
14	9	FL	5,954			with seduction crime law	160,273
15	10	GA	4,332	GA. CODE ANN. § 26- 6001 (1953)	yes	with marriage defense	141,959
16	11	HI	704	HAWAII REV. LAWS § 309-33 (1955)	yes
17	12	ID	686	IDAHO CODE ANN. § 18-5609 (1947)
18	13	IL	10,693	ILL. ANN. STAT. Ch. 38	yes
19	14	IN	4,922	IND. ANN. STAT. § 10-4208 (1956)	yes
20	15	IA	2,742	IOWA CODE ANN. § 700.1 (1946)	yes
21	16	KS	2,206	KAN. STAT. ANN. § 21-429 (1964)
22	17	KY	3,140	KY. REV. STAT. ANN. § 436.010 (1963)	yes
23	18	LA	3,496
24	19	ME	997
25	20	MD	3,600
26	21	MA	5,502
27	22	MI	8,357	MICH. STAT. ANN. § 28.800 (1954)	yes
28	23	MN	3,592	MlNN. STAT. ANN. § 617.07 (1964)	yes
29	24	MS	2,246	MISS. CODE ANN. § 2374 (1947)	yes
30	25	MO	4,467	MO. ANN. STAT. § 559.310 (1949)	yes
31	26	MT	706	MONT. REV. CODES ANN. § 94-4108 (1947)	yes
32	27	NE	1,471	NEB. REV. STAT. § 28-927 (1964)
33	28	NV	444
34	29	NH	676
35	30	NJ	6,767	N.J. STAT. ANN. §§ 2A: 142-1, 142-2 (1953)	yes
36	31	NM	1,012	N.M. STAT. ANN. § 40A-10-4 (1953)	yes
37	32	NY	17,734	N.Y. PEN. LAW § 2175	yes
38	33	NC	4,863	N.C. GEN. STAT. § 14-180 (1951)	yes
39	34	ND	649	N.D. CENT. CODE § 12-32-01 (1960)	yes
40	35	OH	10,201	OHIO REV. CODE ANN. § 2905.09 (1953)
41	36	OK	2,440	OKLA. STAT. ANN., tit. 21, § 1120 (1951)	yes
42	37	OR	1,937	ORE. REV. STAT. § 167.025 (1963)	yes
43	38	PA	11,620	PA. STAT. ANN., tit. 18, § 4510 (1963)	yes
44	39	RI	893	R.I. GEN. LAWS ANN. § 11-37-4 (1956)
45	40	SC	2,494	S.C. CODE ANN. § 16-405 (1962)	yes
46	41	SD	692	S.D. CODE § 13.2901 (1939)	yes
47	42	TN	3,798
48	43	TX	10,378	TEX. PEN. CODE, art. 505 (1948)	yes
49	44	UT	994
50	45	VT	404
51	46	VA	4,411	VA. CODE ANN. § 18.1-41 (1950)	yes
52	47	WA	2,967	WASH. REV. CODE ANN. § 9.79.070 (1961)	yes
53	48	WV	1,786
54	49	WI	4,232
55	50	WY	332	WYO. STAT. ANN. § 6-62	yes
56		state counts
57		50	50	37	31
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59	51	DC	797
60	52	Canal Zone			yes
61	53	Guam			yes
62	54	Puerto Rico			yes
63	55	Virgin Islands			yes
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66	Sources:
67	Laws: p. 189, n. 38; p. 193, n. 66 in Wadlington, Walter. 1967. "Shotgun Marriage by Operation of Law." Georgia Law Review 1: 183-204.
68	Population: https://www.census.gov/popest/data/state/asrh/1980s/tables/st6070ts.txt