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LA - Civil Rights Suit Tackles Law Dubbing Oral Sex a "Crime Against Nature"

Original Article 03/21/2011 By Alex DiBranco Over a year ago, I wrote about a law in Louisiana that treats oral and anal sex as felony "crimes against nature." It's a vestige of extreme homophobia that has been mainly struck down by the Supreme Court, but the law remained on the books and serves a new purpose: putting sex workers behind bars as felony sex offenders. It's oh-so-tricky: it's not the actual act of oral or anal sex that's illegal now, it's the solicitation of that comes with significantly higher penalties than only offering to sell plain ol' vanilla sex, which does not qualify as a felony sex offense. Jordan Flaherty at Colorlines, who first brought the story to national attention, has followed up with a heartening recent development: a coalition of civil rights advocates, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, have launched a lawsuit against the discriminatory law...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).