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Record W3121639107

The Prude in the Law: Why the Polygamy Reference Is All About Sex

2014· article· en· W3121639107 on OpenAlexaffabout
Dana Phillips

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMarriage and Sexual Relationships
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLawCharterSupreme courtConvictionPolitical scienceSodomySociologyHomosexuality
DOInot available

Abstract

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On October 22, 2009, as renewed public controversy over Canada’s longstanding criminal prohibition of polygamy culminated in a constitutional reference to the Supreme Court of British Columbia (BCSC), Mormons and self-identified sluts found themselves in bed together. Although united in their desire for a common result — the striking down of the prohibition codified in section 293 of the Criminal Code — they differed radically in their underlying perspectives and interests. Mormons affiliated with the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) sought to defend patriarchal polygynous practices as part of their right to freedom of religion under section 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (“Charter”). Allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation within the polygynous FLDS community of Bountiful, British Columbia had triggered the reference and stood directly in the judicial spotlight. The sluts, many of whom identified with a movement known as ‘polyamory,’ also sought to defend a non-normative approach to conjugal relationships; one that rested not on the religious entrenchment of patriarchal values but rather on principles of personal autonomy, equality, and sex-positivity. Their practices of ethical non-monogamy were rooted, not in religious conviction but in a principled rejection of socially imposed monogamy and its associated culture of dishonesty, secrecy, and sexual shame. Far from the spotlight of the constitutional reference, this group found themselves in danger of becoming its collateral damage.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.012
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.792
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0120.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.322
Teacher spread0.288 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2014
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