Yet because living on a public sex-offender registry is so wretched, many abscond.
Sjodin's death led her mother to push for Dru's Law, which created the first national public sex offender registry.
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The lay-bys, police said, had been used as "public sex environments" by men and that victims had been subjected to serious assaults, robbery, blackmail and damage to their vehicles.
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College brought a similar experience: He was doing well until a local radio station broadcast his name and address in a recurring segment alerting the public to sex offenders in the area.
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This case led to Megan's Law, which requires authorities to notify the public about convicted sex offenders living in their communities.
Dr Leonard Sax, the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Single Sex Public Education, even claims a neurological reason for his cause: girls and boys mature at different rates, so they need different teaching methods.
Her public image as a sex symbol and diva conflicted with her religious upbringing, she said.
The public obsession with the sex scandals also puts China's leaders in a tough spot.
Police had feared the plan would make it harder to prosecute incidents of sex in public toilets in cases where cubicle doors were closed.
But the strong influences of churches, whether Catholic or evangelical Protestant, has led to public reluctance to discuss sex or encourage the use of condoms.
"Shankey" painted a picture of a rather promiscuous life of sex in public parks with other men who may be returning to their wives and families.
Can anyone tell me with accurate real information not just anti- sex offender media sites or anti-sex offender public site information how these registries help the public.
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Mr Philpott said he was referring to details of their private life - which included sex in public and threesomes - which he did not want to be revealed.
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Commentators at The Beijing News and Global Times call on the Chongqing police to make public details of the sex tape probe and explain why they interrogated Mr Zhu.
Linda Walker is the mother of Dru Sjodin, who was killed in 2003 by a sex offender and for whom the Department of Justice's National Sex Offender Public Website is named.
Whereas he had simply read a pre-prepared statement in February when making his first public appearance following the sex scandal, Woods, who has also been interviewed by ESPN and The Golf Channel since his misdemeanours came to light, now faced some truly probing questions.
Sometimes she would abandon her prudish public mask and talk about sex with remarkable candour.
The court is hearing arguments as a public shift toward same-sex marriage appears to be gathering speed.
The issue has grabbed the national spotlight recently with the public embrace of same-sex marriage by Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Sen.
He is fortunate that he doesn't have to appear on a public registry, but his sex offender status limits his options, as does being unable to use a computer, she said.
Some newspapers suggest that public outrage over the alleged sex attack may have been one motive for the launch on May 15th of a 100-day campaign in Beijing against the illegal employment of foreigners.
With polls showing strong public opposition to same-sex marriage, groups fighting Tuesday's ballot measures conceded from the beginning that theirs was an uphill fight -- but they embraced the silver lining that the ballot measures were at least an opportunity to debate the issue.
BEIJING In the latest of a series of sex scandals involving public officials that has rocked China, the southwestern city of Chongqing said that 10 county- and district-level officials and executives from state-owned companies were fired after they allegedly appeared in secretly filmed sex videos.
When they're not fighting city traffic in Cadillac suvs, middle-class Saudis frequent gleaming shopping malls lined with designer brand names from the U.S. In a country where women are required to wear full-length abayas in public, you can catch Sex and the City on satellite TV every Friday night.
As everyone knows, some states have begun to experiment with legalizing same-sex marriage, and public opinion seems to be shifting in favor of the change.
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In Germany the public good included blocking access to sex-related information.
The Democrats want the federal government to impose policies regarding drugs, same-sex marriage, abortion on demand, sex education in the public schools, free birth control, etc. on the entire nation.
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In a statement, the Church in Wales said it did not and had not authorised public services to bless same-sex unions and had no liturgy for them as a result.
The moderator also criticised negative public attitudes to prisoners, particularly sex offenders, warning that it led to offenders being victimised at the expense of their needs and those of their victims.
"There's more political pressure on sexual norms and family norms, so you see a profusion of these sorts of scandals, " says Paul Apostolidis, a political science professor at Whitman College in Washington state and the co-editor of the 2002 book Public Affairs: The Politics of Sex Scandals.
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