Sex Laws

[Dillinger]

• The US has more laws governing sexual behavior than every country in Europe combined.
• (I mentioned this one on another thread) - Texas law makes it illegal for a woman to own more than 6 sex toys.
• Oral sex is illegal in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota, Louisiana, parts of Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia. In Idaho, it can get you life in prison
• Until 1972, homosexuality was officially a mental illness, classified as such along wiht schizophrenia and multiple personalities.
• Pre-marital sex was illegal in Connecticut until the late 1960's.
• For centuries, the Catholic church declared "man on top" the only acceptable position for sex. It's called the missionary position because missionaries were to teach it as part of their efforts to "civilize" non-Christian races.
• Utah has a full-time $75,000-a-year "Porn Czar," who tracks adult video sales and drums up obscenity cases. The current Czarina is Paula Houston, a 30-something former missionary and self-proclaimed virgin.
• A 15-year-old girl in Mississippi can marry without parental consent, but must wait a year to legally have sex with her husband.
• The age of consent in the US is primarily split between 16 and 18 years old. However, in liberal Hawaii, 14-year-olds are allowed to have sex as adults.

 

[Basia]

Oral sex is illegal in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota, Louisiana, parts of Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia. In Idaho, it can get you life in prison

Same for Bristol and Norfolk counties in Mass.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

• Oral sex is illegal in Arizona, Florida, Minnesota, Louisiana, parts of Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia. In Idaho, it can get you life in prison

Quick! Someone look up whether there is a statute of limitations on this - I may have to go into hiding!

 

[Harpoon]

Rethinking the holiday plans...

 

[shadowsource]

• Until 1972, homosexuality was officially a mental illness, classified as such along wiht schizophrenia and multiple personalities

• Tom Robinson had a great, bitter song about the medical classification: "Sing If You're Glad To Be Gay."
  [*]Utah has a full-time $75,000-a-year "Porn Czar," who tracks adult video sales and drums up obscenity cases. The current Czarina is Paula Houston, a 30-something former missionary and self-proclaimed virgin.There was a great porno video trail in Salt Lake wherein the defense lawyer for the indie vid store pointed out trhe window to the Mormon-owned marriott Hotel across the street and explained to the jury that AT&T and the Hotel made millions very year renting XXX flicks (INCLUDING the one that prompted the storeowner's arrest) to guests. I don't recall whether or not the jury convicted.

 

[Gilly Bean]

What part of MI???? -acks- I doan wanna go to jail!




Gilly Bean

 

[Bob Peale]

Re: Re: Sex Laws

[*]Utah has a full-time $75,000-a-year "Porn Czar," who tracks adult video sales and drums up obscenity cases. The current Czarina is Paula Houston, a 30-something former missionary and self-proclaimed virgin.

I'm applying for this if I get to sample the evidence.

Then again, mormon porn...*shudder*

 

[Barb Dwyer]

There's always Amish erotica.

 

[*bratcat*]

Myst...you should be careful!

 

[Dillinger]

Here's some more:

• In California, not only is it illegal for any animal to mate within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship, but in San Francisco, there's a law stating that the giving or receiving of oral sex is strictly prohibited.
• Some of the stranger sex laws in Florida are: having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal (why did they think they needed to make this a law - was there lots of people having sex with porcupines in Florida?); the only lawful sex position is the missionary position; and... you're also not allowed to kiss your wife's breasts.
• North Carolina has some wacky sex laws. First, if you're having sex, you must stay in the missionary position and have the shades pulled. Of course, don't even think about having oral sex... it's considered a crime against nature. Also, if a couple is staying in a motel for the night, state law mandates that they stay in a room with twin beds, kept a minimum of two feet apart, with making love on the floor between the beds strictly forbidden.
• In Louisiana, a prostitute can get up to five years for giving oral sex ("a crime against nature"... again) for money, but will only get a maximum of six months if it's actual intercourse.
• In Singapore it's illegal to walk around your house naked, as it's considered pornography, which is also illegal. Just for the record, oral sex is also against the law "unless it's used as a form of foreplay."
• Tasmanian widows as well as aboriginal women in Gippsland, Australia are required by law to wear their recently dead husband's penis around their neck.
• Apparently, unlawful sex with llamas was such a problem that the Incas actually passed a law requiring that llama drivers be escorted by chaperones at all times to keep them from copulating with their animals.