Laws that control intercourse are difficult for many people to even consider. This is also true in Utah. According to the AP, two Utah escort services have submitted a federal lawsuit against the state since the broadly phrased solicitation ordinances not only ban prostitution, but make acting sexy illegal.
Implied offerings of sex are now banned in Utah
According to Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank, Utah adopted its currently worded anti-prostitution laws in order to assist undercover agents working stings within the sex trade. In order to prove they are not police, prostitutes ask officers to “expose or touch themselves” sometimes. This won’t be an issue anymore if it is against Utah state law. Any “lewd” or “suggestive” nonverbal act isn’t illegal with the amendments to Utah’s sex laws on top of straight out asking for money from sex.
Burbank told the media that officers will not target non-prostitutes, but will simply weed out illegal behavior within the sex trade, particularly when it involves the under-aged.
“Officers were being put in a position that we’re not going to allow, so we took a different direction,” he told the AP.
Is it a crime to be sexy?
The escort service will be represented by attorney Andrew McCullough in the lawsuit. He is worried that some of the other businesses with sexual components will be in legal trouble. Escort services and strip club dancers who traditionally express their sexuality or “act sexy” as parts of the job aren’t necessarily soliciting sexual contact, argues McCullough.
“Most girls who touch their breasts are not telling you they’re open for sex,” the attorney said.
Acting sexy isn’t really good at home, either
A Massachusetts bill is considering making intercourse illegal between many people. If they are in the divorce process, it would be illegal to do this within home. The idea is to protect children and slow domestic violence, according to Wrentham, Mass., Selectman Robert Leclair. This would make it illegal for any sexual relationship within the home to take place until the divorce is final while also robbing parents of their rights, some say.
The amount a spouse would have to pay another would be capped while stopping the lifetime alimony payment practice though if the bill did pass.
And how about bestiality?
Bestiality would have been banned in Florida with Senate Bill 344 too. In 2009, Sen. Nan Rich of Sunrise, Fla., introduced the bill. He thinks it is an essential one to have. However, some critics maintain that SB 344 is another bill that suffers from overly broad verbiage. The word “animals” in the phrase “sex with animals” could too include human beings, argues Escapist Magazine – so SB 344 would arguably ban human sexual intercourse, diminishing the state’s tax base substantially.
Citations
Associated Press
wapo.st/jgXAOq
Escapist Magazine
escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.283827-Florida-outlaws-sex
Mother Jones
motherjones.com/mojo/2011/05/annals-big-government-florida-ban-bestiality-baggy-pants
My Fox Boston
bit.ly/m50Qb6
David Archuleta’s dad Jeff could not resist the sexy (allegedly)
youtube.com/watch?v=xm6R-V3tL8g
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