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Start here => Free For ALL => Topic started by: Callaway on January 20, 2007, 05:24:43 AM
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Life in prison for adultery? (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070118/lf_afp/usjusticesexoffbeat_070118055859)
DETROIT, United States (AFP) - Philanderers beware: spouses caught cheating in Michigan could end up spending the rest of their life in prison.
And not the emotional kind.
The state's appeals court recently ruled that extramarital flings can be prosecuted as first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in jail.
"We cannot help but question whether the Legislature actually intended the result we reach here today," Judge William Murphy wrote in a unanimous Court of Appeals panel, "but we are curtailed by the language of the statute from reaching any other conclusion."
"Technically," he added, "any time a person engages in sexual penetration in an adulterous relationship, he or she is guilty of CSC I," the most serious sexual assault charge in the state's criminal code.
Michigan still lists adultery as a felony, although no one has been convicted of the offense since 1971.
Nobody really expects prosecutors to go after cheating spouses. But the ruling has the local legal community twittering about its genuine intended target.
One theory floating around the courthouse is that the judges were taking a jab at the state Supreme Court, which has decreed that judges must interpret statutory language adopted by the Legislature literally, whatever the consequences.
Many other states allow judges to reject a literal interpretation if they believe it would lead to an absurd result.
Judge Murphy wrote that he encouraged "the Legislature to take a second look at the statutory language if they are troubled by our ruling."
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Totally absurd. Cheating is bad, but no-one deserves lifetime in prison for it.
That thing with literary interpreting the law whatever the consequenses isn't a specific Michigan or US thing, though. Swedish courts usually do the same or they verdict "according to practice", that is, when a new law comes up, the first verdict where the new law is used sets the standard for all similar cases, no matter the circumstances. That has consequenses like for instance, that a person who kills a wolf to protect his cattle will usually get a harder punishment than someone beating up another human being. A wolf may only be shot if it's attacking cattle, not if it has done it 10 times before and just sneaks around the fence... ::)
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it is merely a continuation down a slippery slope.
there will come a time when people need to have permission, verified by notary and signatures of all people involved in order to have sex.
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it is merely a continuation down a slippery slope.
there will come a time when people need to have permission, verified by notary and signatures of all people involved in order to have sex.
The sad thing is that you're probably right. And at that time, most people will be so tamed, lazy and cowardly that hardly anyone will resist the oppression. :grrr:
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it is merely a continuation down a slippery slope.
there will come a time when people need to have permission, verified by notary and signatures of all people involved in order to have sex.
Have'nt you watched Chapell's show "Sex contract" skit??
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it is merely a continuation down a slippery slope.
there will come a time when people need to have permission, verified by notary and signatures of all people involved in order to have sex.
Have'nt you watched Chapell's show "Sex contract" skit??
i am just thinking, "whew! thank god i'm not out there."
on the plus side, cyber sex will becom all the rage.
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i am just thinking, "whew! thank god i'm not out there."
on the plus side, cyber sex will becom all the rage.
They'd better start teaching it in schools then cos there's going to be a lot of frustrated people if people don't learn how to do it right. :laugh:
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i am just thinking, "whew! thank god i'm not out there."
on the plus side, cyber sex will becom all the rage.
They'd better start teaching it in schools then cos there's going to be a lot of frustrated people if people don't learn how to do it right. :laugh:
and in the 9th grade you get sex education.
in the tenth grade you get the practical advanced studies of cyber sex education.
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Better to be penetrated by a cock than a bullet~
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Better to be pissed off than pissed on!!
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Better to be pissed off than pissed on!!
that is a matter of opinion.
just ask Lit.
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i am just thinking, "whew! thank god i'm not out there."
on the plus side, cyber sex will becom all the rage.
They'd better start teaching it in schools then cos there's going to be a lot of frustrated people if people don't learn how to do it right. :laugh:
and in the 9th grade you get sex education.
in the tenth grade you get the practical advanced studies of cyber sex education.
They could teach it as a form of abstinence :laugh: Although how would they teach it without it feeling a little too much like child abuse on the part of the teacher who has to 'cyber' with them?
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i am just thinking, "whew! thank god i'm not out there."
on the plus side, cyber sex will becom all the rage.
They'd better start teaching it in schools then cos there's going to be a lot of frustrated people if people don't learn how to do it right. :laugh:
and in the 9th grade you get sex education.
in the tenth grade you get the practical advanced studies of cyber sex education.
They could teach it as a form of abstinence :laugh: Although how would they teach it without it feeling a little too much like child abuse on the part of the teacher who has to 'cyber' with them?
they could put the girls on one side of the campus and the boys on the other side of the campus.
and simply hand out some pre arranged dialog. then in the second semester of studies they could get the kids to wing it for themselves.
in the last quarter of studies, they could have them exchainge msn messenger or Aim accounts. instead of phone numbers.
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i am just thinking, "whew! thank god i'm not out there."
on the plus side, cyber sex will becom all the rage.
They'd better start teaching it in schools then cos there's going to be a lot of frustrated people if people don't learn how to do it right. :laugh:
and in the 9th grade you get sex education.
in the tenth grade you get the practical advanced studies of cyber sex education.
They could teach it as a form of abstinence :laugh: Although how would they teach it without it feeling a little too much like child abuse on the part of the teacher who has to 'cyber' with them?
they could put the girls on one side of the campus and the boys on the other side of the campus.
and simply hand out some pre arranged dialog. then in the second semester of studies they could get the kids to wing it for themselves.
in the last quarter of studies, they could have them exchainge msn messenger or Aim accounts. instead of phone numbers.
Is mutual masturbation on webcam a university-level course?
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At least nobody has be convicted since 1971 or there would be a lot of people in prison in Michigan. :eyebrows:
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i am just thinking, "whew! thank god i'm not out there."
on the plus side, cyber sex will becom all the rage.
They'd better start teaching it in schools then cos there's going to be a lot of frustrated people if people don't learn how to do it right. :laugh:
and in the 9th grade you get sex education.
in the tenth grade you get the practical advanced studies of cyber sex education.
They could teach it as a form of abstinence :laugh: Although how would they teach it without it feeling a little too much like child abuse on the part of the teacher who has to 'cyber' with them?
they could put the girls on one side of the campus and the boys on the other side of the campus.
and simply hand out some pre arranged dialog. then in the second semester of studies they could get the kids to wing it for themselves.
in the last quarter of studies, they could have them exchainge msn messenger or Aim accounts. instead of phone numbers.
Is mutual masturbation on webcam a university-level course?
teenagers have sex also. this is safe sex.
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You guys brought it up to be ridiculous, but it almost seems plausible. It might deserve its own anti-philosophy thread.
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You guys brought it up to be ridiculous, but it almost seems plausible. It might deserve its own anti-philosophy thread.
agreed.
i remember staring this kinda tongue in cheek. but i have been considering this all day long.
remember i have two daughters. and i am frightened about their teenaged years. especially because there are the playboy type of guys out there, like me.
i would be open minded about this tactic. since sex is an issue that you cannot ignore.
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Do they teach how to masturbate in sex ed classes? (Yourself, not someone else.) I've heard they teach how to have more peasurable sex, or more pleasurable homosexual sex, but it may be an urban legend.
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Do they teach how to masturbate in sex ed classes? (Yourself, not someone else.) I've heard they teach how to have more peasurable sex, or more pleasurable homosexual sex, but it may be an urban legend.
i don't know.
i went to private christian schools.
we watched a woody woodpecker cartoon.
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Do they teach how to masturbate in sex ed classes? (Yourself, not someone else.) I've heard they teach how to have more peasurable sex, or more pleasurable homosexual sex, but it may be an urban legend.
Our sex ed was of the "This is a penis, this a vagina, this is a condom and this is an STD. Any questions? No? Good." sort. I think we got about 90 minutes of it during the whole of school, at the 14-15 age.
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I was in a residential treatment center during adolescence, and those girls fucked like bunnies in their non-institutionalized lives, so the sex ed was pretty extensive. I don't think anyone even bothered saying "don't" more than a couple times. Basically, it was "USE PROTECTION. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, USE PROTECTION." The public schools I was in offered sex ed in varying degrees from third grade till that point, mostly on what to do when you got your period. Very useful to me, of course. ;)
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That's disgusting, show you just how bored lawmakers are these days. The problem is even if the law system hypothetically was perfect at some point (strictly hypothetical) they're paid their wages to fix it till its broke and I think laws like this are just going to show how bad things are getting. Yeah, I can see cheating pretty much being instant win for other spouse in divorce court and I'd almost be dickish enough to say that the partner caught cheating has to pay alimony even if its a woman who cheated on the guy. As for ranking it up with rape, pedophilia, or whatever is up there that's not a clever or innovative solution (such as what I suggested before) - its a farce.
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I am not the least bit surprised by this, considering that the rule of the U.S. is currently dominated by the right-wing Christian fundamentalist hypocrites, forcing their pious beliefs on other people because they think that their God subliminally tells them to.
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I am not the least bit surprised by this, considering that the rule of the U.S. is currently dominated by the right-wing Christian fundamentalist hypocrites, forcing their pious beliefs on other people because they think that their God subliminally tells them to.
Michigan though? I really have my doubts, if anything complaints have been that its one of the more discriminatory states toward Christians and the like, particularly in reference to scholarships and things like that - they've gotten some bad publicity lately. Thats why having a law like this pass up there is all the more weird and confusing.
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I am not the least bit surprised by this, considering that the rule of the U.S. is currently dominated by the right-wing Christian fundamentalist hypocrites, forcing their pious beliefs on other people because they think that their God subliminally tells them to.
Michigan though? I really have my doubts, if anything complaints have been that its one of the more discriminatory states toward Christians and the like, particularly in reference to scholarships and things like that - they've gotten some bad publicity lately. Thats why having a law like this pass up there is all the more weird and confusing.
I'm sorry to diss your State, then.
Nah, not really.
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I am not the least bit surprised by this, considering that the rule of the U.S. is currently dominated by the right-wing Christian fundamentalist hypocrites, forcing their pious beliefs on other people because they think that their God subliminally tells them to.
Michigan though? I really have my doubts, if anything complaints have been that its one of the more discriminatory states toward Christians and the like, particularly in reference to scholarships and things like that - they've gotten some bad publicity lately. Thats why having a law like this pass up there is all the more weird and confusing.
I'm sorry to diss your State, then.
Nah, not really.
Heh, not my state. Diss it all you want.
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WTF?
how can this kinda law be allowed to exist?
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There used to be a law against sodomy in Georgia that outlawed, among other things, oral sex, even between a married couple. It was repealed. I think there is hope that this one will be repealed too.
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There used to be a law against sodomy in Georgia that outlawed, among other things, oral sex, even between a married couple. It was repealed. I think there is hope that this one will be repealed too.
Or completely ignored and uninforced. I think they have joke books about all kinds of laws like these such as not being able to put a hypnotized person in a window display at a business establishment in Utah or something like that or like only being allowed to bathe rather than shower in a tub outside in West Virginia. Weird stuff that again, makes me wonder how bored these attorneys get sometimes - looks like its nothing new though.
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There used to be a law against sodomy in Georgia that outlawed, among other things, oral sex, even between a married couple. It was repealed. I think there is hope that this one will be repealed too.
One can only hope!!!
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There used to be a law against sodomy in Georgia that outlawed, among other things, oral sex, even between a married couple. It was repealed. I think there is hope that this one will be repealed too.
Or completely ignored and uninforced. I think they have joke books about all kinds of laws like these such as not being able to put a hypnotized person in a window display at a business establishment in Utah or something like that or like only being allowed to bathe rather than shower in a tub outside in West Virginia. Weird stuff that again, makes me wonder how bored these attorneys get sometimes - looks like its nothing new though.
I think some overzealous Georgia prosecutor attempted to enforce some aspect of the anti-sodomy law against a homosexual couple, which is what led to its repeal by the state Supreme Court.
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There used to be a law against sodomy in Georgia that outlawed, among other things, oral sex, even between a married couple. It was repealed. I think there is hope that this one will be repealed too.
Or completely ignored and uninforced. I think they have joke books about all kinds of laws like these such as not being able to put a hypnotized person in a window display at a business establishment in Utah or something like that or like only being allowed to bathe rather than shower in a tub outside in West Virginia. Weird stuff that again, makes me wonder how bored these attorneys get sometimes - looks like its nothing new though.
I think some overzealous Georgia prosecutor attempted to enforce some aspect of the anti-sodomy law against a homosexual couple, which is what led to its repeal by the state Supreme Court.
God bless religious zealots!!
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i want yogurt raisins.
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i want yogurt raisins.
/me Takes Milla's yougurt Raisins
Aaaaaaaarg!!!!! :arrr: :arrr: :arrr:
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aaaaaaaaaaaaa raisin stealer!!! :moon:
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i think it's stupid to even consider that having sex with someone else is something bad... :P
when i get married to someone i'm definitely NOT going to give her "sole banging rights"
it's a person's inalienable biological rights to have sex with whomever they want!
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Hey!!! hellznrg is back!!! i thought hale_bopp scared you off!!
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i think it's stupid to even consider that having sex with someone else is something bad... :P
when i get married to someone i'm definitely NOT going to give her "sole banging rights"
it's a person's inalienable biological rights to have sex with whomever they want!
That's fine, as long as the person to whom you are married agrees with this and has the same inalienable biological banging rights that you do. It would be wrong if it were one-sided or if she did not know ahead of time that you have these expectations of banging other people while you are married. Many people assume that marriage implies monogamy, but if both people agree that it won't then it can mean whatever they agree that it means. You may have difficulty finding a woman who shares your views, especially if you expect inalienable biological banging rights while denying her the same rights.
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lol.. "inalienable biological banging rights"... sounds pretty funny :)
anyways, yeah of course she gets the same rights too... i don't think it's right that marriage=monogamy in this stupid NT society... anyways for now i'm goign to concentrate on becoming an alpha... having sex with every women i meet
scrapbeard: yeah no i was just busy :( i've got a full time job, a part time job, i go to the gym whenever i have time plus i hang out with my RL friends a lot nowadays... plus i do some graphic design and i mix a little aerobics music and i make websites too... and i've got a LOT of things in the queue.. :P
dude guess what...? i bought 5 good quality leather jackets for less than 200 dollars...!!!!
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lol.. "inalienable biological banging rights"... sounds pretty funny :)
anyways, yeah of course she gets the same rights too... i don't think it's right that marriage=monogamy in this stupid NT society... anyways for now i'm goign to concentrate on becoming an alpha... having sex with every women i meet
scrapbeard: yeah no i was just busy :( i've got a full time job, a part time job, i go to the gym whenever i have time plus i hang out with my RL friends a lot nowadays... plus i do some graphic design and i mix a little aerobics music and i make websites too... and i've got a LOT of things in the queue.. :P
dude guess what...? i bought 5 good quality leather jackets for less than 200 dollars...!!!!
Ah, shit!
You're one of these fucked up people who say "yeah no". We have something in common, already. I don't type that way though. :smarty:
What kind of graphic design work do you do, in Dubai?
I thought most of their shit was designed a couple of millenia ago. :evillaugh: