Just before his adoption in 1999 by the Conservatives of Kensington and Chelsea, Mr Portillo disclosed that he had experimented as a young manwith gay sex.
Mr Boyd said the current definition of rape dated back to 1858, in a case where judges ruled that a woman had been raped if a man had sexwith her "forcibly and against her will".
The idea that virginity has a high value harkens back to the days of early humans -- if a man has sexwith a virgin woman, he knows for sure that her children will be his, anthropologists reason.
Then, after falling out with the former premier, Mr. Anwar was abruptly sacked in 1998 and spent the next six years in prison on charges he had sexwith another man.
Terry Norris of the Georgia Sheriffs' Association cites a man who was convicted of statutory rape two decades ago for having consensual sexwith his high-school sweetheart, to whom he is now married.