Another structural problem for the Scalia view is that states "formulated their provisos in different ways, some including acts of '
licentiousness' or infringements upon the laws of morality, some including disturbance of the religious practice of others, and one including acts contrary to the '[h]appiness of society.'" (90) That many states added additional categories to their provisos in addition to violations of the "peace and safety" suggests that they did not understand "peace and safety" to encompass all laws.
Sexual
licentiousness is a big worry for those calling for the police to be restored to power:
Israel too, claims Hamato, is guilty of spreading
licentiousness into the Arab world, using satellite TV to spread perversion.
The larger culture also believed that you could have such a thing as too much liberty, and they had a name for it; "
licentiousness." Many state constitutions excluded acts of
licentiousness and placed peace and safety limits on the right to free exercise of religion.
It's curious how veteran filmmakers like the Taviani brothers could have taken "The Decameron," one of the greatest books about storytelling, and turned out a narrative as blandly conveyed as "Wondrous Boccaccio." The classic 14th-century compendium, so full of subversive humor and joyful
licentiousness as its plague-escaping narrators entertain each other with bawdy tales, is robbed of its piquancy here.
This collection of well-researched studies of several aspects of the wide range of non-heteronormative sexualities in Asia interrogates both the Orientalist imagination which fostered the idea of the East as a place of promiscuity and
licentiousness, and recent scholarship which focuses on transgendered specialists who performed same-sex acts in a ritual context.
The kingdom's hard-line interpretation of Islam, known as Wahabbism, holds that allowing women to drive encourages
licentiousness. No such ban exists in the rest of the Muslim world, including Saudi Arabia's conservative Persian Gulf Arab neighbors.
Social Control and the Education of Adults in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: The Role of Religion, Natural Law, Science and Useful Knowledge in Curbing
Licentiousness, Promoting Moral Rescue and Averting Working-Class Dissent
* The known propensity of a democracy is to
licentiousness.
One may quibble here and there with Cobb's casting choices, but he's the star of the show, portraying Sir John Falstaff with delightfully leering
licentiousness. He has a gift for playing Shakespeare's prose like a musician playing an instrument.
"We've made 'life' a decision taken by man," he said, and "taken 'liberty' and converted it to '
licentiousness.' We've taken 'pursuit of happiness,' and reduced it to materialism."