- wanton behaviour, sexual excess. There should be a law against it! Aberdeen certainly thought so in 1497 when It was statut and ordanit . . . that all licht weman be chargit and ordanit to decist fra thar vicis and syne of venerie, and al thair buthis and houssis skalit [It was decreed and ordained . . .that all loose women be ordered and ordained to desist from their vices and sin of sexual excess and all their shops and houses dispersed].
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