Yes
Virginia, Your Sex Laws Are In Need Of Change
The Virginia Supreme Court has removed a state law prohibiting
sex between unmarried people. However, there are still laws that
need changing such as the anti-sodomy law. Virginia's
anti-sodomy law prohibits oral and anal sex even for married couples,
but gay-rights activists say the statute is only used to target
homosexuals.
Legislators for years have rejected efforts to repeal the law.
They left it on the books again last year even after the Texas
decision held that such laws are unconstitutional. It's a strong
message to legislators that they must repeal Virginia's sodomy
law.
The court said that decisions by married or unmarried persons
regarding their intimate physical relationship are elements of
their personal relationships that are entitled to due process
protection. The ruling stemmed from a woman's lawsuit seeking
$5 million in damages from a man who infected her with herpes.
She claims the man did not inform her that he was infected before
they had sex. Richmond Circuit Judge Theodore J. Markow threw
out the lawsuit, ruling that the woman was not entitled to damages
because she had participated in an illegal act.
The
law against fornication had been on the books since the early
1800s but was last enforced against consenting adults in 1847.
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