inadmissable
Not accepted as legally valid in a court of law.
divorce
The legally mandated dissolution of a marriage.
homosexuality
Legally defined as the willing engagement of sexual activity with a person of the same sex.
automaton
A mechanical device constructed to replicate the appearance and movements of a human being.
Wolfenden Report
A 1957 British Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution recommending the decriminalization of homosexual acts between men.
bawdy
Characterizing a literary form that deals with sexually suggestive material in a humorous or comical way.
dissuade
To talk someone out of taking a particuar course of action rather than persuading them to follow that course of action.
conveyancy
The process of preparing lega documents for the transfer of property.
vitiate
To nullify or countermand the validity of a legal decision.
putrefying
Decaying and producing an increasingly offensive odor.
solicitor
The British equivaent of an attorney.
quintessential
A fundamentally intrinsic constituent of the character of a person, place or concept.
misogyny
Extreme and irrational hatred of women by a man.
alienation
The estrangement from other society or a culture resulting from a profound disaffection with the traditions, conventions and expectations of representatives of that society or culture.
respondent
The defendant in a lawsuit such as the filing of a petition for divorce.
objectification
The regarding of a human being as an object or depersonalized representation of an expansive stereotype.
insolence
Contemptuous lack of civility accompanied by a cheeky but brazen disrespect for authority and social decorum.
impermanence
A sensation of insubstantiality resulting from the collective effects of objectification and alienation.
improprieties
Vulgar acts of defiance toward conventional standards of public decorum and private behavior
