Sentimental novels turn on the contrast between the passive victim status of the heroine and the active libidinal quest of the rake-villain. Child recast the defendant as a sentimental heroine, the trial became about seduction, and Norman was acquitted against the weight of the evidence. Once newspapers, defense lawyers, and reformers such as Lydia Maria. Our paper explores how the affective energies and cultural expectations set in motion by best-selling American sentimental novels like Hannah Foster's The Coquette and Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple informed the notorious mid-nineteenth-century American trial of Amelia Norman, who attempted to kill the man who seduced her. The third part of the note discusses the possible solutions to the problems. The second part discusses four challenges that might be created by its abolition under the following sub-topics, namely (a) social advantages for prohibiting pre-marital sexual intercourse (b) religious consequences of pre-marital sexual intercourse and advantages for discouraging pre-marital sexual intercourse (c) the link between the delict of seduction under customary law and the payment of lobolo and (d) the relationship between the customary law delict of seduction and the value of gender equality.

it is ripe for South Africa to abolish the delict of seduction under customary law, the first part of the note discusses the existing problems in customary law governing the delict of seduction. In addition, there are a growing number of academic commentators who are in full support of Bohler-Muller’s recommendation for the abolition of the delict of seduction in customary law. The legislature has not yet abolished the delict of seduction in customary law. This note investigates whether or not the time is ripe for South Africa to abolish the delict of seduction.

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