What is Lascivious behavior?
'''Lascivious behavior''', better known as '''lewdness''', '''indecency''' or '''lechery''', is [[Human sexual activity|sexual behavior or conduct]] that is called crude and offensive. It is also against certain and other standards of appropriate behavior.<ref>{{cite web|title=What is Lascivious and Lewd Conduct|publisher=The Shouse California Law Group|url=https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/criminal-defense/what-is-lewd-and-lascivious-conduct|access-date=July 20, 2021}}</ref> ==The legal usage== Under [[Law of the United States|American law]], the word ''lascivious'' is a semi-technical term which means immoral sexual actions, words or thoughts. The term is often used under the legal description of criminal acts wherein certain forms of [[human sexual activity|sexual activity]] are prohibited. In the 2000s and after, the word was used for one of several [[adjective]]s describing [[pornography]], [[solicitation]] for [[prostitution]] and [[indecency|indecent acts]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Lascivious Conduct|publisher=Liberty Bell Law Group|url=https://www.libertybelllaw.com/sex-crime/lewd-lascivious-conduct|access-date=July 20, 2021}}</ref> In [[Law of the United States|American law]] mailing lascivious matter is prohibited thus: <blockquote>Every obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device, or substance ... [i]s declared to be nonmailable matter and shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or by any letter carrier.<ref>{{usc|18|1461}}, interpreted in ''[[Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day]]'' {{ussc|370|478|1962}}, 482-484.</ref> </blockquote> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:United States law]] [[Category:Sexual law]] {{us-stub}}