perfidy

Via blogcritics I see that in Virginia, oral sex is a felony; a crime against nature. Moreover, this law's being enforced.

This morning's Charlottesville Daily Progress brings news that a 21-year-old woman found receiving oral sex in her car at 3 a.m. on January 29, in the parking lot outside her apartment building in Newport News, Virginia, has been charged with a felony under the Crimes Against Nature statute.

Her boyfriend was arrested and charged as well.

Virginia's Crimes Against Nature law states that people can't have oral or anal sex, whether homosexual or heterosexual.

The law doesn't specify whether the sex is illegal in public or in private.

Under an agreement with prosecutors, the man pleaded guilty Monday to the lesser charge of indecent exposure. The woman was offered the same plea.

If she chooses to go to court and fight the original charge, she could face up to five years in prison.

Regardless of what you think about this couple's lack of discretion, this is utter looniness. I don't like a world where the paranoid dystopian fantasies of the likes of "The Handmaid's Tale" seem prescient rather than laughable.

Too often critics of the Bush administration try to conflate America's rising moral dunder with the President's administration, (of course, there's a case to be made, there), when such charges just makes them sound like rabid Bush-haters. No, regardless of who the damn President is, I have a right to make sweet love to whomever I want in whatever way I want! What the hell is going on in this country?

Yet another reason on the growing list titled "Why I Will Never Live In Virginia Again No Matter How Pretty It Is In The Spring."

Fecking Crimes Against Nature.