A survey of Illinois Statutes
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720 ILCS 5/11‑7. Adultery. (a) Any person who has sexual intercourse with another not his spouse commits adultery, if the behavior is open and notorious, and (1) The person is married and the other person involved in such intercourse is not his spouse; or (2) The person is not married and knows that the other person involved in such intercourse is married. (b) Adultery is a Class A misdemeanor.
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Read: Marriage is a special promise when you tell someone - I want to make it illegal for you to have sex with other people.
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720 ILCS 5/11‑8. Fornication. (a) Any person who has sexual intercourse with another not his spouse commits fornication if the behavior is open and notorious. (b) Fornication is a Class B misdemeanor.
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Read: This is my favourite Class B misdemeanor. And if you are reading this and not a bible, you are a criminal. Thankfully the "another" part means that single people can still take the Jocelyn Elders route.
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720 ILCS 5/11‑14. Prostitution. (a) Any person who performs, offers or agrees to perform any act of sexual penetration as defined in Section 12‑12 of this Code for any money, property, token, object, or article or anything of value, or any touching or fondling of the sex organs of one person by another person, for any money, property, token, object, or article or anything of value, for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification commits an act of prostitution. (b) Prostitution is a Class A misdemeanor.
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Read: If you ever see a prostitute, ask her or him just to touch herself or himself. Also if you attribute any value to love, and you are not a virgin, then you are a prostitute.
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720 ILCS 5/11‑14.1. Solicitation of a sexual act. (a) Any person who offers a person not his or her spouse any money, property, token, object, or article or anything of value to perform any act of sexual penetration as defined in Section 12‑12 of this Code, or any touching or fondling of the sex organs of one person by another person for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification, commits the offense of solicitation of a sexual act. (b) Solicitation of a sexual act is a Class B misdemeanor.
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Read: Marriage is state sanctioned prostitution.
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And as a special bonus - The definition of obscenity:
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(b) Obscene Defined. Any material or performance is obscene if: (1) the average person, applying contemporary adult community standards, would find that, taken as a whole, it appeals to the prurient interest; and (2) the average person, applying contemporary adult community standards, would find that it depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, ultimate sexual acts or sadomasochistic sexual acts, whether normal or perverted, actual or simulated, or masturbation, excretory functions or lewd exhibition of the genitals; and (3) taken as a whole, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
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Here is the special problem. Are we asking people about the contemporary adult community standards in public, or are we having a real talk with Jesus with them. Because every man is going to say a centerfold is pornographic if you ask them, every man is going to vote against pornography, but then they are going to go home and watch some porn. When I was helping on a Village Planning and Design Commission, they told me they didn't want an adult use business in town because no one there would like it and only truckers would use it. My response - "that explains why it is a multi-billion dollar a year industry - all those rich truckers."
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Why is this country so phucked up sexually? There are good reasons to protect marriage, and good reasons to curb prostitution - these laws don't seem to be reaching any of them.
2 comments:
Curb prostitution? Do ya mean car dates?
It's the Puritan within us, or maybe it's the "there's gotta be a law against x" part of us. Once they actually start writing the law, they find it's harder than they thought. If they word it a certain way then certain activities that "they" deem to be OK would fall under it, but if they're more clear then they create gray areas. You know, like every other law ever created. So we end up with funky laws. That are hardly enforced. Which is about right.
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