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/a polite interject
Jesus, this thread has run itself off a cliff (as far as the law vs. morality sub-sub-topic goes), and taken a good number of you along for the ride screaming.
There are a number of justifications for the law, and there's a number of schools of thought on the subject; whether or not the aim of the law is morality, the result of power struggles or status inequality isn't going to be determined here since there's mountains of academic paper on it. During a philosophy undergrad, I took not one but two courses about the philosophy of the law and spent a good deal of time on a paper after that about the legal and moral dimensions of sex clubs, all of which is to say the topic is bigger than whatever your gut feeling is.
And even if suddenly you all realize that yes, the main function of law is to enforce morality (or social norms if you like), then you've still managed to come up with nothing of import. Just because laws are aimed at morality, doesn't mean a particular law is moral (although a fairly famous philosopher argued, whose name I can't remember, that all laws are inherently moral).
/end polite interjection
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