# 20 wacky sex laws in the U.S.: Are you breaking any? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 19, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-wacky-sex-laws-in-the-u-s-are-you-breaking-any/681689 "2014-02-19T05:53:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-wacky-sex-laws-in-the-u-s-are-you-breaking-any/681689/8 "2014-02-19T14:17:32Z")
> [@smapti](#): > > all that “bestiality is legal” or “necrophilia is legal” means is that the state never passed a law against it. My state, for instance, didn’t have a law against bestiality until 2006, because the matter had never come up until then. That doesn’t mean\*\* the entire state was a free-for-all of people engaging in acts of wanton carnality with the population of old mcdonald’s farm \*\*- it simply came to pass that a rather high-profile case of a man dying as the result of sex with a horse resulted in people realizing there wasn’t a law, and pushing to create one. e-i-e-i oh! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-wacky-sex-laws-in-the-u-s-are-you-breaking-any/681689)._