United States v. Colon-Angueira

In light of the customs that once prevailed, a woman’s chastity was viewed by many jurists as relevant to her credibility. On this premise, acts of extramarital intercourse were a proper subject of cross-examination for impeachment purposes. Moreover, promiscuity represented such a departure from accepted morality that evidence of voluntary intercourse on one occasion with one man was admissible to establish that a prosecutrix had probably consented to intercourse on an entirely different occasion with a different man.

In recognition of the sexual revolution in the western world, critics began…