Those who commit fornication and adultery receive a horrible retribution. Sex between people not married to each other is either fornication or adultery. Pennsylvania abolished its fornication and adultery laws in 1973. The Bible often equates worshiping multiple gods, i.e. idolatry to fornication. It is no slight boon that in wedlock fornication and unchastity are checked and eliminated. It also retained the prohibitions against "fornication" and "idol worship". Not only was this dishonoring to them, but it was also an incitement to fornication. Those acts refer to "mutual masturbation" and "femoral fornication". In Sweden it was called "unnatural fornication". The punishment for fornication is lashing. The Criminal Code of 1871 prohibited brothels and "commercial fornication". The sultan catches the couple, suspecting fornication and sentences Vikram to be decapitated in public. In this view, Cupid might be seen as a "demon of fornication". In the Quran, 'her people' have a conversation with Mary accusing her of fornication. These arcade dens were called "fornices", from which derives the English word "fornication".