Comments on: Amusing Sex Laws

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:08:42 +0000

I could find NONE of the laws attributed to MN in the online MN Statutes web site — more urban legend here too?

By: Sarah Kneib

Sarah Kneib — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:25:15 +0000

If you actually know your social history, as I think anyone who is going to write about historical events/laws should, most of these laws make perfect sense for the period they were written. For instance, the two that say a man can not seduce a woman with the promise of marriage – this is completely viable when you think back to the days that a virgn was the desired wife and that having intercourse prior to marriage usually classified you as “used” and undesirable for marriage. Many women would then have sex with a man they thought woiuld marry her afterward. The other viable one is the “three drinks of beer” one. If all you have ever studied about history are the things you read in your middle-school textbook, then you wouldn’t know that the fight for prohibition was started in the Temperance period by women who were fed up with their husbands going out and getting drunk only to either cheat on them or come home and rape them. The law against a man having too many drinks most likely was in reference to a man not getting drunk and taking advantage of his wife. Two consenting adults can easily turn into one pushing themselves on the other given the right circumstnaces. So many of these laws, in fact, make a lot of sense for the day, and perhaps even for now.

And to add: in Colorado, at one time (I don’t know if they still do it), men who were caught soliciting sex from a prostitute were printed up in the paper. The thought behind that was that the fear of family or friends finding out that a man paid for or intended to pay for sex would thwart them from doing so. Because prostitution is illigal…

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:49:32 +0000

First, I believe the California law that made it illegal for either partner to reach climax before the other during foreplay would be applauded by many a women who have seen their husband turn over and go to sleep before finishing their task.

Second, I suppose it’s good I do not live in Mississippi because I get aroused every time I view Dr. Fulbright’s photo in her column.

Third, people sure get worked up over a harmlessly fun article.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:43:15 +0000

I’m sure there must be a law in some state that bans you from taking a shower naked. Where do these people come up with these. More politics please!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:29:56 +0000

Any position other than missionary is also illegal in the U.S. Army. Punishable in Military Court.

By: SpiritMatter

SpiritMatter — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:01:38 +0000

The self righteous have an amazing knack for seeing evil anywhere….. except in the mirror!….

Instead of ethnic cleansing, the anally retentive, sexually dysfunctional, sex hating “Christian” Fascists even before our founding have wanted to use our government, which was, thankfully, mandated by the Constitution to be religiously neutral, to pursue the religious cleansing of “heretics” in our nation!

Responsible freedom, not anarchy, is the right to think, say and do those things that do not significantly physically harm your neighbor.
Religious freedom is not the right to force your religious morals on your neighbor or vice versa.

We should legalize and regulate consensual sex and the use of recreational and nutritional chemicals. The high divorce rate in our sexually dysfunctional, anally retentive society would probably drop and most people would use their new freedoms responsibly.

Christian fascists, today, like their Jewish counterparts in the 1st century, love the Victorian double standard hypocrisy where your “proper Christian” moral facade is displayed publically while you pursue your real interests privately. Yahshua ha Mashiach, Jesus the Christ, was not fooled, and He does not want us to be fooled either….

If we would legalize and regulate recreational and nutritional supplements, we could get rid of a huge bureaucracy and crime syndicate that feeds on the efforts of millions of humans to be free. Prohibition created a huge tax dollar supported enforcement bureaucracy, murderous crime syndicates and ruined the lives of many more descent productive citizens than alcohol ever did. The same is true of recreational and nutritional supplement chemicals.

By: gary

gary — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:55:55 +0000

it is legal for unmarried people in georgia to have sex they just can’t do it in a public place. they changes that one

By: Meg

Meg — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:56:58 +0000

Funny to see that Pennsylvania law about 16 women constituting a brothel here! When I went to college in PA, fraternities could have houses for their members but sororities could not. The reason? The university observed the 16-women limit law. I always thought that was just a local myth!

By: nylon

nylon — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:01:57 +0000

it is good for a laugh

By: ndt

ndt — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:00:50 +0000

I usually enjoy articles like this, but this one suffers from extremely poor research. There are laws like this on the books in some states, and some have even featured in recent court cases. That would have made an interesting article, but instead we get a collection of unverified urban legends.