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Actually, I have no idea what the age is there. It's 18 here, and knowing your backwards laws, homosexual sex is probably banned before 30, and nuclear warhead ownership is allowed if you no longer need a bib.
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In most places, I suspect it's banned completely. Last I heard, I think oral sex is illegal here (Missouri), too. Oops.
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Hey Sol, frome whence did you drag this up? I live in clark county on the border of Oregon in Washington, and I haven't heard anything about this on local news or even through word of mouth.
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Okay, I was wrong. Oral sex (along w/ anal sex and hand-jobs, even) is defined as "deviate sexual intercourse", but not illegal in and of itself. However, "deviate sexual intercourse" is illegal in matters of underage or same-sex partners.
So, apparently, in Missouri, gay sex can get you up to a year in prison.
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I found the link to the bill at Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things. It consisted of just the bill itself. I've yet to see a news story about it. But then I haven't been looking very hard.
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I notice that Simon was strangely quiet on the gay sex matter...
So it's illegal to have gay sex in some American states? How widespread is that?
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It varies from state to state. The act of having homosexual intercourse, or deviant sex behaviour (no, I'm not a brit, but ever since the Behaviour group it just seems like the right way to spell the word) may both be legal in one state, but only one is legal in another, or vice versa, or none at all. I can understand some types of 'deviant' behaviour being illegal (I know I'm going to get slammed for that one by somebody), but others really are a personal choice for citizens, and state governments have no right in dictating such a thing. Its quite unfortunate that these types of things are such touchy (no pun) issues that people are embarrased to bring them up when legalizing them.
As of now, the only thing that stands between same sex marriages in some states is popular opinion, as the general population doesn't approve, thus drafted measures that come up on ballots every few years keep getting shot down, or worse, not even getting onto the ballot because lobbyists can't gather enough signatures to even get it to that point.
The signature gathering in Washington has gotten much more difficult lately because a neasure was passed to ban signature solicitation at public/corporation owned paces, such as supermarkets.
This basically means that even though I am old enough to vote I can't vote on anything worth while unless its every ten years or so.
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"I can understand some types of 'deviant' behaviour being illegal..."
Like what? Here in Missouri, the definition is:
"(1) 'Deviate sexual intercourse', any act involving the genitals of one person and the hand, mouth, tongue, or anus of another person or a sexual act involving the penetration, however slight, of the male or female sex organ or the anus by a finger, instrument or object done for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of any person;" -Missouri Revised Statutes, title XXXVIII, chapter 566, section 010
I can't see anything in there that I would make illegal. Hell, I've done most of those things, and would do most of the rest...
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We're looking at two different definitions of 'deviate' here: the first was used in the context of someone referring to acts he might class as deviate, that may or may not be illegal; then you have the Missouri statute which classes certain illegal acts and refers to them as deviate.
Sp, my question is, what acts would lot lot call deviate, regardless of their legal status?
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