Men were taxed as a punishment for having sex with animals in Ancient Rome.
In Tasmania, widows are required to wear their dead husband’s penis around their neck for a period of time after his death. A similar law is enforced in Gippsland, Australia.
An ancient law in Indonesia prohibited men from masturbating. The punishment was decapitation.
In Bhutan a younger brother is not allowed to lose his virginity before his older brother. Furthermore, a younger brother may not marry before his older brother.
In Peru, men are not allowed to have sex with a female alpaca.
In Uruguay, men cannot touch their wives during their menstrual period. If convicted of this crime, a man can be fine and publicly whipped 200 times or more.
In Iran, married men can legally have homosexual sex with their wife’s father, brother, or son.
The owner of every hotel in Hastings, Nebraska is required to provide each guest with a clean and pressed nightshirt. No male and female—even if they are married—may sleep together in the nude. Nor may any sexual activity be undertaken except while the couple is attired in one of these plain white cotton nightshirts.
In Krakow, Poland, wives are allowed to beat or kill any woman who is sleeping with their husband. She can either beat the woman to death or just wound her unmercifully. However the only weapon she may use is a club.
If a husband catches his wife in bed with another man in Uruguay, he is given several options on how to handle the situation under the law. One option is to kill the wife and her lover, no questions asked. The other option is to castrate the man with a knife and then slice off the nose from his wife.
In Yemen, prostitution is illegal. Women convicted are publicly beheaded.
Rapists in Nambia can choose either castration or 20 years of hard labor.
In Communist China, anyone caught distributing pornography is sentenced to death.
In Florida, having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal.
Indiana and Wyoming both have laws against anyone’s enticing, alluring, instigating, or helping a person under 21 to masturbate. This activity is known in legal circles as an act of “self pollution.”
New Jersey law threatens men with a three-year sentence for “mutual masturbation.” The law covers anyone “who, in private, is a party to an act of lewdness or sexual indecency with another.”
Michigan law prescribes five years in prison for a man who engages “in acts of gross indecency, either in public or private.” This includes mutual masturbation by two men or the simple act of solitary masturbation.
No one may have sex while riding in the sidecar of a motorcycle in Norfolk, Virginia, where an old ordinance outlaws anyone from doing so while cruising down a city street.
No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth.
Warn your hubby that after lovemaking in Ames, Iowa, he isn’t allowed to take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with you—or holding you in his arms.
Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundown—if they’re nude.
The earliest known illustration of a man using a condom during sexual intercourse is painted on the wall of a cave in France. It is dated between 12,000 and 15,000 years old.
“Used underwear that has supposedly been previously worn by schoolgirls is being offered for sale in vending machines in Japan. Though we don’t know the current price for such items, in 1993 they sold for the equivalent of US $50 apiece.” – Snopes
During the 1920s, it was believed that jazz music caused one to permanently lose his sexual inhibitions. It was often banned in many cities. One private company went as far as to sell the elites “jazz proof” furniture.
The female bedbug has no sexual opening. To get around this dilemma, the male uses his curved penis to drill a vagina into the female.
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Pygophilia
Those who are aroused by fondling, licking, caressing, kissing, etc of the buttocks.
Troubadours
Troubadours lived during the 11th to 13th centuries at which time many were killed for heresy by the Church. These men taught birth control, that sex should be enjoyed and that love should be considered in selecting a marriage partner. Troubadours turned the hearts of many away from the stoic traditions with their romantic ballads. – …their philosophy of romance and courtship filtered into the upper classes who had the free time to indulge in contemplations of titillating or torrid affairs.
Dogging – (Amomaxia – sex in a parked car.) An English term for a sport where people watch couples having sex in parked cars. The couples in the cars perform for those who gather around outside their car.
Penile Ligation
– refers to binding or tying the penis. Young Athenian men used to tie a string around their foreskin to protect the glans penis while doing events in the nude. Ligation is used today by gay men in sex games. They join them together with a string to create a form of bondage.
Hierophilia
– refers to those who are aroused by sacred objects. This may include such things as masturbating with crosses or while sitting in the church pews. Some have even broken into the churches at night and had sex on the altar. (texas ’69)
Siderodromophilia
Refers to those who are aroused by trains. Couples sometimes reserve a cabin and will have sex standing up in front of the window as the train passes through a town or station. Others squeeze into bathrooms or sneak quickies in corners. Trains provide more privacy and opportunity to socialize than airplanes or buses.
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Gathered from a multitude of forwarded emails and anonymous spam, not to mention reader submitted. If you see something you can legitimately lay ownership to, let me know.
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Strange U.S. Sex Laws
— In Bakersfield, California, anyone having intercourse with Satan must use a condom. (An asbestos one we presume.)
— In Oblong, Illinois, it’s punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on your wedding day.
— In Minnesota, it is illegal for any man to have sexual intercourse with a live fish. (Apparently it’s OK for woman.)
— No man is allowed to make love to his wife with the smell of garlic, onions, or sardines on his breath in Alexandria, Minnesota. If his wife so requests, law mandates that he must brush his teeth.
— Warn your hubby that after lovemaking in Ames, Iowa, he isn’t allowed to take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with you — or holding you in his arms.
— Bozeman, Montana, has a law that bans all sexual activity between members of the opposite sex in the front yard of a home after sundown — if they’re nude.
— In hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, every room is required to have twin beds. And the beds must always be a minimum of two feet apart when a couple rents a room for only one night. And it’s illegal to make
love on the floor between the beds!
— The owner of every hotel in Hastings, Nebraska, is required to provide each guest with a clean and pressed nightshirt. No couple, even if they are married, may sleep together in the nude. Nor may they have
sex unless they are wearing one of these clean, white cotton nightshirts.
— An ordinance in Newcastle, Wyoming, specifically bans couples from having sex while standing inside a store’s walk-in meat freezer!
— A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.
— In Romboch, Virginia, it is illegal to engage in sexual activity with the lights on.
— In Merryville, 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.”
— It’s safe to make love while parked in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Police officers aren’t allowed to walk up and knock on the window. Any suspicious officer who thinks that sex is taking place must drive up from behind, honk his horn three times and wait approximately two minutes before getting out of his car to investigate.
— A law in Helena, Montana, mandates that a woman can’t dance on a table in a saloon or bar unless she has on at least three pounds, two ounces of clothing. (Ouch! These pasties hurt!)
— Anywhere in the U.S., it’s illegal to use any live endangered species, excepting insects, in public or private sexual displays, shows or exhibits depicting cross-species sex. (Insectophiles apparently were successful in their lobbying efforts.)
— Lovers in Liberty Corner, New Jersey, should avoid satisfying their lustful urges in a parked car. If the horn accidentally sounds while they are frolicking behind the wheel, the couple can face a jail term.
— In Carlsbad, New Mexico, it’s legal for couples to have sex in a parked vehicle during their lunch break from work, as long as the car or van has drawn curtains to stop strangers from peeking in.
— Women aren’t allowed to wear patent-leather shoes in Cleveland, Ohio
- a man might see the reflection of something “he oughtn’t!”
— No woman may have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance within the boundaries of Tremonton, Utah. If caught, the woman can be charged with a sexual misdemeanor and “her name is to be published in the local newspaper.” The man isn’t charged nor is his name revealed.
— It is illegal for any member of the Nevada Legislature to conduct official business wearing a penis costume while the legislature is in session.
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