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From the NYT article on the Supreme Court decision to overrule the Texas sodomy law...

Texas was one of only four states -- Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri are the others -- to apply a criminal sodomy law exclusively to same-sex partners. An additional nine states -- Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia -- have criminal sodomy laws on their books that in theory, if not in practice, apply to opposite-sex couples as well. As a result of the majority's broad declaration today that the government cannot make this kind of private sexual choice a crime, all those laws are now invalid.

WOW! I never realized how many laws I had violated (assuming these are blanket laws covering both sodomy and oral sex)!! Let's count, shall we? Louisiana and Florida? Definitely!! North Carolina? Yup, there, too. Virginia? Probably -- took a vacation there a few years back. Can't remember details, but in all likelihood, that'd be a big AFFIRMATIVE. If the damn Texas law didn't apply to just gays (lucky bastards), I'd qualify there, too! *sigh* Went through Utah on the way back to college one summer with an old BF. If only we had decided to stop instead of pushing through to Grand Junction for the evening...

What a fun vacation theme that would have been -- to violate the anti-sex laws in every state that had them on the books. Oh well. I guess it's too late now. Everything's all LEGAL. Somehow, going for violations of, say, assisted suicide laws just doesn't seem as tempting.

Anyone else have suggestions of fun projects/theme vacations that can compensate for the loss of this one?

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  • Went through Utah on the way back to college one summer with an old BF. If only we had decided to stop instead of pushing through to Grand Junction for the evening...

    I think you violated their laws by virtue of traveling not only without a male relative, but with a man who you were clearly not related to!

    Okay, I'm going to stop making fun of Utah now. It's too easy, and I know that there is a least one member of the community who lives there. Though, that's never stopped me before. :)
  • Were oral sex by same sex and opposite sex partners is illegal, in the home.

    How much do you want to bet that the freak that wrote that into Maryland's criminal code went that night and paid for a blow job? (sorry for the crudeness -- i just think laws that prohibit consenting adults to define one's sexuality is obsurd in the highest).

  • Most of my comments are here [slashdot.org] and over here [jaycaruso.com]. Granted, the latter posts are a bit sloppy as I was posting between annoying boss moments :-)

    Fellow SlashDotters, the Jane & Jay 'blog is quite interesting, if you choose to stop by over there. But it is not the clawing, knockdown that is SlashDot, please be nice over there?
  • Sodomy is illegal in the UK between people of any gender. Of course, it's rarely prosecuted, but they keep it around, and wheel it out for the occasional child molester when they can't pin anything else on them. I'd rather it was abolished myself (along with the myriad other laws that prohibit individual freedom between consenting adults). But it seems a bit odd that we have an age of consent for homosexuals (higher than for heterosexuals, incidentally), but if they can't have sex, what are they going to be
  • They only repealed their sodomy/oral sex law within the past 5 years (I know it was still in effect when I moved there in '97)
    • Well, heck!! Thanks for reminding me!! Of course I got Georgia! Hubby and I met 7 years ago, so we *definitely* would have fallen under the statute back then! I was following the list too closely...

      ....Bethanie....
  • If The Man(tm) outlawed wet noodle fights, I would have to suggest wet noodle fights in each state with a law against it.

    But until then, you may have to settle for jay walking in each state.

    robi

  • Thanks to this news, Sunday's Pride festival will be all the better. What disturbs me is that those laws were passed in the first place.. I guess we can thank the Puritans for that.

    • Look at Puritan historagraphy, there is a well established tolerance of men who pair off. One case involves a man whos long term partner died, He was in fact prosecuted eventually but only because after the death he kept propositiong the young men in town.
  • I'd highly recommend checking out the first volume DVD of Michael Moore's Awful Truth, especially the episode with The Sodomobile [advocate.com].

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