How strict are the sex laws where you live?

In other words, even married couples have to behave as if sex is some dirty, evil thing. That's disgraceful. You all should really do something about it.

Not sure, because you rarely hear or read about anyone being charged with sex crimes (unless it's obvious like sex with minors).

Prostitution is illegal, but the Augusta cops are smart - if they arrest and jail a prostitute, they have to house and treat their medical needs.
So, they just arrest them, fine the shit out of them and release them
immediately.

This is the point where someone should start giving us three choruses of "Land of the Free", I think.

I live in California. Pretty much anything is legal so long as it the persons involved aren't too young.

Check out the police departments web page for prostitutes, They post their pictures as soon as they are charged, even before a day in court. I don't think this is right. Shit the cops need more stuff to do if this is what they are down to arresting. Anyways, look at what some are charged with soliciting. http://www.ashevillenc.gov/departments/police/default.aspx?id=10436

Arrest records are public knowledge.

hmmm the wife and I were up in Asheville last week. Stayed at the cedarcrest inn bed and breakfast on biltmore ave just north of the estate. The owners, Bruce and Marcio were very accommodating. They didn't turn us in. But we didn't turn them in either.

Should have stopped by for a brew man. I live 8 miles south of the Entrance to the estate.

I guess they are but posting pictures I don't agree with until they are convicted of something. I mean if its a public photo then I guess it could be released to the press, but I don't think it should be the job of the police to post photos of the unconvicted on their website. I mean, lets face it. Its a form of punishment and should a person be punished before their day in court? I don't think people realize the implication of such things. There is and should be a big difference between being charged and being convicted of a crime. If one of those people was a victim of some kind of misunderstanding or something and was innocent, they just got screwed over royally for nothing, or should we just assume guilt and do away with trials all together like the cops would love us to do.

So you bitch about the feds all the time. Taxes, gun laws, blah-blah-blah. Yet you let the feds get you all wound up about terraists and Mexicans and blah-blah-blah.

But you let the State of North Carolina dictate your sex life and you never do anything about it.

Gives a whole new meaning to "states rights."

If Garamet reproduced, the sex laws in her area are not STRICT ENOUGH!

What did your parents do to you to make you so terrified of sex?

The wonderful state of Mississippi has a sex toy law, so every now and then the idiot mayor of Jackson will have the police raid the local bookstores and seize all the dildos.

Shrug, his lawyer is an idiot then and so is the judge. The ruling by the Supreme Court supersedes those laws.

Not entirely sure if the situation has been remedied now, but not so many years ago, anal sex was illegal here.
The only time I ever saw a case, though, was when a bloke charged with rape claimed the woman had consented. But he'd had anal sex as well as vaginal, so the CPS used that as a fall-back...

Thankfully, that's no longer so. As long as the parties are consenting, aged over 16, no bestiality and no minors watching (I think that's just in relation to anal sex) sex acts are legal. I can't think of any that don't fall under the categories I've just listed that are illegal.

Edit: Incest also illegal. Aurora's post reminded me I missed that one.

No kiddie touching, no inbreeding, no sex without the consent of both partners. That's it

Actually, that's pretty much the same old meaning to "states rights," which never had any more meaning than "if the states want to do something thoroughly idiotic and unconstitutional of which I approve then the feds shouldn't get in the way."

Agreed. So I guess we're to conclude that North Carolinians approve of the existing sex laws or just don't care.

Would that you were right. That is the practice, but the letter of the law, while not quite as crazy as some US states, is somewhat... old-fashioned as far as sexual acts, up to and including hugs, among consenting minors is concerned. In theory, a 15-year old boy who invites a 15-year old girl to the cinema and gets a peck on the cheeck as they leave could be sued not only for juvenile sex, but also for paying for such sex (Verschaffung von Vorteilen, one strike away from prostitution)!

Well, in Germany that is. I'm guessing Austrian laws are almost identical because they usually are, but I might be wrong.

Talk about a shitty, back-door prosecution.

Nope the laws were carefully reworded to get around the federal ruling. Garmet, yes I do try and vote against such bullshit and those that espouse it when I get the chance but I am only one person. Shit I wish someone would challenge the No Beer on Sunday before 1pm law. That law is clearly based on religion and should never have been allowed by a judge. I just wanted to see how other states do things. I am not defending it Garamet.

^Then you've got to join up with some kindred souls, sign petitions, find some lobbyists, and shove the Church Ladies out the door.

Henry VIII was a serial killer. Okay, he paid somebody else to behead his women after he was through with them, but still. That this purveyor of "unnatural acts" can still impact the laws in America more than 500 years after his death is incredible.

Start talking up the beer thing at work. I'm sure you'll get people to sign on, and they can start spreading the word.

That's another outrage. Heck, in CA you can buy beer, wine and the hard stuff in supermarkets and Rite-Aid 24/7.

Crazy blue laws...

It was the same way in NM, hell they even had drive up liquor and beer windows at stores and you could buy the hard stuff a croger. Shit in SC you cannot buy beer at all on Sunday all day long. I am not a petition leader kind of person Garamet. I just hope some Rich guy gets arrested or something for buying/selling beer early in sunday and can challenge it on constitutional grounds all the way up. That is the way lots of things like that get thrown out. Too many bible thumpers here that think alcohol is liquid sin to get any legislative action. The concept is totally beyond them that a person might buy a case of beer and only drink one or two that day. If you buy a bunch they all assume you are going to go home and drink every bit of it right then. That is why its banned on Sunday. Oh and I get so fucking sick of the religious people all going to church on Sunday and then pointing the finger at the rest of us for working on Sunday, yet it doesn't bother them at all to stop by their favorite restaurant or walmart right after church and lay out that money and pay others to work on Sunday. Something very wrong with that IMHO. IOW I ain't gonna sin but I will pay others to do it.

We reach!

If everyone on earth would just mind their own business, it would be a much better place...

Yes, Garamet, the world is filled with a bunch of nosey assed people who always want to tell others how to live. The vast majority of them got no room whatsoever to talk, because everybody has got their funky little secrets to hide. I wonder about people (like my new neighbors) but I am not going to say/do anything unless the do something to me. Hey, I saw another of the people that live in that house and he was out in the yard thowing a frisbee at this pole with a chain basket around it. I think its one of those frisbee golf things that I heard aobut once, but not sure. Anyways, looks like another college kid.

Tell your defense attorneys to familiarize themselves with this case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas

His wife should wash them for reuse, not throw them out...

Umm, he only killed two of them. Anne Boleyn and Cathrine Howard.

The key phrase in that is "acting in private". That is a broad term. That is what this state ran with when rewriting the laws to get around the lawrence ruling. Basically, if somebody can somehow see you, then its public. Got crazy porn laws here too. If somebody can look in your window and see porn then you can be busted. We got some totally fucked up laws that reward snoopy people. Of couse, we also have laws that protect property owners with guns, so looking in windows might not be to bright around here. I don't know what the laws are concerning looking out windows though. One of my neighbors has a smoking hot teen daughter the suns herself on the back deck facing my house, she is very much endowed, god bless her.