The codes of laws distinguish three sorts of sexual infractions: rape, fornication, which includes prostitution, and incest.
Rape is punished differently depending on whether it occurs in the city or in the…
With the exception of the code of Ur-nammu dated 2,200, most codes of laws that have been found are from the beginning of the second millennium, as the one of Eshnunna (about 1950[1]), the one of Lipit-Ishtar from Nippur (about 1850) or the famous Babylonian code of Hammurabi (about 1750)…