Alabama oral sex law

Over on io9, we posted a map of all the weirdest sex laws in the U. We didn't have room for every weird sex law we found, and some of them we had to shorten a bit to make them fit. So here's the complete, unedited list of sex laws! Flirtation and "lascivious banter" between men and women on the streets may result in a day jailterm.

On Friday, an Alabama appeals court struck down a law banning consensual oral and anal sex between unmarried persons. All over the state, people celebrated by continuing to mind their own goddamn sex-business in the privacy of their own homes. The now-vanquished statute mandated that a person is guilty of "sexual misconduct" if they engage in "[a]ny act of sexual gratification between persons not married to each other involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another" feel free to paraphrase this steamy language in all your future sexting endeavors. But that wasn't the full extent of the terribleness: as Ian Millihiser points out at ThinkProgress, marriage equality isn't legal in Alabama. So, obviously, since gay couples can't wed, then all gay sex would automatically fall under the ridiculous umbrella of "sexual misconduct.

By Monica Steiner , Contributing Author. In Alabama, it is illegal for an adult someone 18 or older to have sex with a minor someone younger than 16 , even if the sex is consensual. Those who break the law have committed statutory rape. Statutory rape laws are premised on the assumption that minors are incapable of giving informed consent to sexual activities.