Read about these ridiculous sex laws you may or may not know of. How many of us have broken some of these? It's hard not to. Hooray for Nevada with it's legal sex ranches and "no condom problem". The 30th law, while not a sex law, it's so ludicrous and impossible to obey, I had to include it in this list. Anyone live in Washington or Missouri? Then you've likely committed these sex crimes many times, probably without even knowing it.
1. In Mississippi, S&M is against the law.
2. In Missouri it is illegal to have oral sex
3. As recently as 1990, these states had laws against the use of dildos: Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Washington D.C.
4. The only acceptable sexual position in Washington, D.C. is the missionary position. Any other sexual position is considered illegal.
5. In Ventura County, California cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.
6. In Romboch, Virginia, it is illegal to engage in sexual activity with the lights on.
7. In the state of Washington there is a law against having sex with a virgin under any circumstances (including the wedding night).
8. It's against the law in Willowdale, Oregon, for a husband to curse during sex.
9. Sodomy laws have been repealed—or are ignored—in most states, but not Georgia, where a man was sentenced to five years in prison for engaging in oral sex. With his wife. With her consent. In their home.
10. Warn your hubby that after lovemaking in Ames, Iowa, he isn't allowed to take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with you—or holding you in his arms
11. Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundown—if they're nude
12. The owner of every hotel in Hastings, Nebraska, is required to provide each guest with a clean and pressed nightshirt. No couple, even if they are married, may sleep together in the nude, nor may they have sex unless they are wearing one of these clean, white cotton nightshirts.
13. In Merryville, Missouri, women are prohibited from wearing corsets because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male."
14. In Texas, no one other than a "registered pharmacist" may sell condoms or other kinds of contraceptives "on the streets or other public places." No, not even physicians. Anyone who tries to make a few extra bucks doing this will be severely prosecuted for the dire act of "unlawfully practicing medicine."
15. Kentucky and Idaho limit condom sales to medical practitioners and licensed pharmacists, but their license to sell the items may not be hung on a wall where it can be seen by customers.
16. Maine licenses condom sellers and the license must always be on public display.
17. Nevada, with 35 legal bordellos, has no condom problem. (Way to go Nevada!!) The use of condoms in Nevada brothels is compulsory.
18. In Reno, Nevada, the sale of sex toys, which includes "any device ... designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs," is forbidden. The state of Nevada allows for brothels but it seems the Reno is a little weary of self stimulation. You can pay someone else to do it for you but you can't pay to do it for yourself.
19. In Fairbanks, Alaska, it's illegal to give a moose alcohol and it's also illegal for moose to have sex on city streets. While the first part of this makes sense (a drunk moose would probably be pretty dangerous), the second part sounds like something that might be really hard to enforce. Do you fine these exhibitionist moose or do you just haul them off to jail? Let's face it, if they've been getting it on in the street, they're probably already drunk.
20.Under Lebanese law, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is expressly forbidden.
21. In Tibet, many years ago, the law required all women prostitute themselves. This was seen as a way to gain sexual experience prior to marriage.
22.The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
23.In 17th century Spain, it was illegal for anyone other than a woman's husband to see her bare feet. A woman could freely expose her breasts, but feet were considered sexual and had to be covered in the presence of men other than her husband.
24.In China, women are prohibited from walking around a hotel room in the nude. A woman may be naked only while in the bathroom.
25.The early Christian church forbade couples from having sex on Wednesdays, Fridays and of course, Sundays.
26.Up until 1884, a woman could be sent to prison for denying a husband sex.
27.While not as extreme as the ancient Israelite punishment for adultery (stoning), Greek men still had their fair share of discomfort when their pubic hair was removed and a large radish was shoved up their rectum.
28.There are men in Guam whose full-time job it is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the first time. Why? Under the law in Guam, it is forbidden for virgins to marry.
29.In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband's lover may be killed in any manner desired.
30.(this one is not a sex law, but it’s so ridiculous I had to include it, because it’s near impossible to obey)No one can suddenly start or stop a car in front of a McDonald's or drive-in restaurants in general in Little Rock, Arkansas.
