Silly American Laws |
Alaska • A law in Fairbanks, Alaska does not allow moose to have sex on city streets. |
California • In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit. • In Los Angeles, California, a man is legally entitled to beat his wife with a leather belt or strap, but the belt can't be wider than 2 inches, unless he has his wife's consent to beat her with a wider strap. Consent should be given prior to the event, as is carefully stipulated. |
District of Columbia • The only acceptable sexual position in Washington D.C. is the missionary-style position. Any other sexual position is considered illegal. |
Idaho • If a police officer in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, suspects a couple is having sex inside a vehicle they must honk their horn three times, and wait two minutes before being allowed to approach the scene. |
Illinois • A law in Oblong, Illinois makes it a crime to make love while fishing or hunting on your wedding day. • Women must address bachelors as master instead of mister, according to an Illinois state law. |
Iowa • In Ames Iowa a husband may not take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with his wife. |
Kentucky • An excerpt from brilliant Kentucky state legislation. "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she be escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club". |
Maryland • In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises." |
Michigan • In Michigan, a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission. |
Minnesota • A law in Alexandria, Minnesota makes it illegal for a husband to make love to his wife if his breath smells like garlic, onions, or sardines. |
Missouri • In Maryville, 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." |
Montana • In Bozeman, Montana, you can't perform any sexual acts in the front yard of any home, after sundown, and only if you are nude. • A Helena, Montana law states that a woman cannot dance on a saloon table unless her clothing weights more than three pounds, two ounces. • It is illegal for a man and a woman to have sex in any other position other than missionary style. |
Nebraska • Hotel owners in Hastings, Nebraska are required by law to provide a clean, white cotton nightshirt to each guest. According to the law, no couple may have sex unless they are wearing the nightshirts. |
Nevada • In Nevada sex without a condom is considered illegal. |
New Jersey • Any couple making out inside a vehicle, and accidentally sounding the horn during their lustful act, may be taken to jail according to a Liberty Corner, New Jersey law. |
New Mexico • During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico, no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains. |
Ohio • In Cleveland, Ohio women are not allowed to wear patent-leather shoes. • In Oxford, Ohio, it's illegal for a woman to strip off her clothing while standing in front of a man's picture. |
Oklahoma • Clinton, Oklahoma, has a law against masturbating while watching two people having sex in a car. |
Oregon • In Willowdale, Oregon, no man may curse while having sex with his wife. |
Pennsylvania • In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll booth. |
South Dakota • Hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, are required by law to furnish their rooms with twin beds only. There should be a minimum of two feet between the beds, and it is illegal for a couple to make love on the floor between the beds. |
Texas • In Kingsville, Texas, there is a law against two pigs having sex on the city's airport property. |
Utah • A Tremonton, Utah law states that no woman is allowed to have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance. In addition to normal charges, the woman's name will be published in the local newspaper. The man does not receive any punishment. |
Virginia • No woman may go in public without wearing a corset in Norfolk, Virginia. |
Washington • In the state of Washington there is a law against having sex with a virgin under any circumstances. (including the wedding night) |
Wisconsin • In Connorsville, Wisconsin no man shall shoot of a gun while his female partner is having a sexual orgasm. |
Wyoming • An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store's walk-in meat freezer! |