It's the Law!

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I examined the state laws (FLORIDA) this morning, and here is what I discovered about sex.

Unmarried adults cannot cohabitate.

A fifteen year old cannot fuck another fifteen year old; its a felony. But a 23 year old can fuck a 16-17 year old. If youre 24 you cant fuck someone 16 or 17.

Its sexual battery to fuck someone who's drinking or on medication.

Its sexual battery to fuck someone being treated for a mental condition.

Young age is not a defense against rape for a male. Young age is a defense against rape for a girl.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Its sexual battery to fuck someone who's drinking...

That just made 99% of the college students in the state wanted criminals.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

DEVIANT

Being a cynic, it seems to me many of these laws exist for one reason only: To use when nuthin else will stick. Theyre an excuse to hold someone in jail or to make problems for a trouble-maker in the community.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Here's another interesting law in Florida.

You cannot expose ( assert, suggest) any religion to ridicule or contempt or disfavor. Its a hate crime even if the information is correct.

 

[Katyusha]

DEVIANT

Being a cynic, it seems to me many of these laws exist for one reason only: To use when nuthin else will stick. Theyre an excuse to hold someone in jail or to make problems for a trouble-maker in the community.

Arizona repealed several of its sex and cohabitation laws about six years ago. They hadn't been enforced in decades, but they remained on the books for a long time anyway. State officials knew they were there and said that they stayed "for moral reasons," or some nonsense like that.

Someone finally wised up and made them go away.

I wouldn't know for sure, but I would imagine that's why some of those laws in Florida are there.

What gets me, though, is in a state where the age of consent is 18 and an 18 year-old is caught having consensual sex with his 16 year-old girlfriend, and the parents press charges under the age of consent laws. If he didn't force her, if he wasn't raping her, if she was a willing participant in the encounter, even if he hasn't yet graduated high school, he still becomes a registered sex offender, something that will follow him for the rest of his life.

THAT'S what bothers me.

 

[elsol]

*burp*

Nothing beats the now-defunct 'incest loophole' in NY in my book.

Fuck a child... Class B felony up to 25 years.
Fuck a child who happens to be your relative... Class E felony and not listed as sex crime. Probation-only was a possible punishment if convicted.

http://www.protect.org/newYork/campaign.shtml

Of course, it was up to 'prosecutorial discretion'.

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

But a 23 year old can fuck a 16-17 year old. If youre 24 you cant fuck someone 16 or 17.

So a 23 Yr old with a 16 Yr old GF can fuck their brains out....but one year later (and older and wiser) they are "fucked"?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

James,
Every state has weird laws that were passed for one reason or another an simply languish on the books, forgotten. I believe there is a law in Oregon having to do with tying your horse to the curb on the North side of the street on Sundays for some reason. At the same time, the beastiality laws do not include chickens. Here you can tape a telephone conversation without announcing it, but if you tape a face to face converstation, it's "Wiretap". Go figure.

Many Laws are made in response to some specific instance that most likely never exists again in time.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

JENNY

Until some eager-beaver uses it to fuck with you. I referenced clove cigarettes on another thread. You can make them, you can sell them, the state taxes them, but you couldnt possess them.

There really are dipstick newbie deputies who make a bowl of popcorn and spend the evening searching the statutes for archaic laws to play with.

Here's a silly law on the books that includes cigarette wrappers and tobacco substitutes (whatever that is)

(1) It is unlawful to sell, deliver, barter, furnish, or give, directly orindirectly, to any person who is under 18 years of age, any cigarette or other tobacco product or cigarette wrapper. As used in this section, the word“cigarette” includes a clove cigarette or tobacco substitute.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Earlier today I reviewed the state law regarding hate-crimes. The law pretty much says NO HATE CRIMES! JACK! But the state lets the various victim groups formulate the official policy of how the law will be enforced....that is, the usual suspects make certain theyre included in the protected class of hate-crime victims.

Then the policy alerts Law enforcement that some forms of hate-crimes are indistinguishable from Constitutional Rights and protected conduct. Like: Let's say youre Gay and I'm talking to your boyfriend, because we work together and are chums on the job. Let's say youre jealous of me talking to my pal, and you make some verbal threats to me. Youre guilty of assault.

But if I respond with "Fuck off sissie!" I commited a hate-crime. If I tell someone else to fuck-off my comment isnt a hate-crime; it's protected speech.

 

[Katyusha]

JENNY

Until some eager-beaver uses it to fuck with you. I referenced clove cigarettes on another thread. You can make them, you can sell them, the state taxes them, but you couldnt possess them.

A friend of mine said Pennsylvania just recently passed a new fireworks law: it is legal to purchase and possess fireworks in the state of Pennsylvania if you DO NOT have a Pennsylvania state-issued ID/drivers' license. Meaning that people from other states can come into PA and buy fireworks, but PA residents cannot.

I've never gone to verify that, but it was the dumbest thing I ever heard of.

In Illinois, it's illegal to purchase, own, and set off fireworks without a commercial license to do so, and on the 4th of July the police departments of every jurisdiction in Chicagoland are hunting for people who have them, instead of keeping a close eye out for drunk drivers and other serious problems that those holidays tend to create. The dumb thing about it is that fireworks are legal in both Indiana and Wisconsin, which is why they're such a "problem" here. It's hilarious: the fireworks dealers set up their tent stores literally just on the other side of each border because they know that Chicagoland residents will flock to them regardless of state laws here.

 

[emap]

If we are discussing weird state laws, my favorite is from Florida, it is illegal to house alligators in a hotel. I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that you can't take your pet alligator on vacation with you in Florida or that people actually did so to begin with.

Now if you look close enough there are some pretty fucked up laws in every state. In Arizona it is illegal to own more than I beleive it is 4 sexual pleasure items. It is illegal to engage in anal sex, even in your own home. It is legal to beat your wife on the courthouse steps with a stick that is no thicker than your thumb at it's thickest. There is no mention of a length on that one by the way. Though you have to be able to prove it is your wife, and you can only beat your wife, oddly enough it is illegal everywhere else but you can on the courthouse steps.

It is illegal to engage in oral sex on a man if you are a man, also even in your bedroom. It is illegal to engage in oral sex on your wife, not to mention illegal to have sex with more than one man in one day. That last one I am sure was to combat prostitutes, not that it worked.

On fireworks, so far as I know it is illegal to sell or purchase fireworks, not to mention ignite them without a license, but it is not illegal to own fireworks, in Arizona of course.

 

[Katyusha]

On fireworks, so far as I know it is illegal to sell or purchase fireworks, not to mention ignite them without a license, but it is not illegal to own fireworks, in Arizona of course.

On the pleasure toys...a bunch of those stupid laws websites are saying that it's illegal to have more than two dildos in a house.

I don't remember if it's an Arizona state law or just a Tucson ordinance, but it's also illegal for birds to cross the road, and donkeys may not sleep in bathtubs. A Hayden ordinance prohibits the bothering of cottontails and bullfrogs.

I've often wondered what the hell they think they're going to do when a bird crosses the road, imprison it in a cat carrier?!?! And just WHAT constitutes "bothering" cottontails and bullfrogs, and why those two animals and not others? I can bother hares but not cottonails?!

I think the greatest stupid law of all time is an Illinois law prohibiting people from speaking English. Apparently the recognized language in this state is American, not English, and you can get in trouble for speaking English. Another ridiculous law here is that it is considered a Class 4 felony for a person to eavesdrop on their own conversation. THAT one is punishable by up to 3 years in prison.

And here's a great City of Chicago ordinance: It is legal to protest naked in front of city hall as long as you are under seventeen years of age and have legal permits.