# A bet on sex laws in the US. Can you help? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 9, 2000, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bet-on-sex-laws-in-the-us-can-you-help/21860 "2000-06-09T12:00:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bet-on-sex-laws-in-the-us-can-you-help/21860/21 "2000-06-10T22:41:10Z")
[dumblaws.com](http://dumblaws.com) does site real laws however they don’t give you the whole story. They have a big story about Pacific Grove Monarch butterflies & disturbing them is a $500 fine. According to our city ordnance, first violation is a 100 fine, second $200, third, $300, fourth $500… ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bet-on-sex-laws-in-the-us-can-you-help/21860/22 "2000-06-11T04:51:39Z")
An Internet search turns up dozens of different sites that repeat the factoid, most of which have exactly the same wording. Of course none of them gives a source. [One site](http://freunde.imperium.de/gansel/law-e.htm) says Florida also has a missionary-only law. [Another site](http://club.euronet.be/patrick.verboven/The-House-of-Lists/amerlaws.html) says it is illegal in Washington State to have sex with a virgin, including on the wedding night. If there ever was such a law in Washington, I suspect it would have been repealed in 1993 when (according to [this site)](http://www.sexuality.org/l/sex/elffaq.html) the sodomy law was repealed there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-bet-on-sex-laws-in-the-us-can-you-help/21860.md?page=1)