Word with various meanings, among them: Esteem and respect for the dignity own. I Good opinion y fame acquired by virtue and merit. I Modesty, honesty and modesty of women (Dice. Acad).
With independence of the value social that these virtues may have, they offer another of a legal nature, since the law recognizes all people the right to defend them and prevent others from attacking them. Hence, attacks on honor constitute two types of crime: one related to attacks on honor (injury, slander y defamation) and another with the attacks on the honesty (studypro, abduction, violation y corruption). Perhaps those referring to the honesty are the most characteristic, although they have been the most changing cause of the evolution of customs. Thus, the once common phrases that a Woman had been dishonored or had lost her honor when she had had, being single, carnal relations with a man, whether or not she had lost her virginity, she currently lacks value, at least in an absolute sense, and that to the point that good part of the doctrine and legislation consider that the carefully protected in crimes -with questionable accuracy- called sexual is neither honor nor honesty, but simply the freedom sexual. It is also easy to notice the notable cultural, that in social estimation the ideas related to female modesty and modesty have suffered, without pointing this out cultural, an assessment is made as to whether this modification in the concepts necessarily affects an aspect of fondo as regards modesty and modesty, but simple mind that customs have changed.