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Suleiman -> RE: States that BAN this??? (6/5/2006 4:26:57 PM)
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Obscenity laws vary wildly by state, county, and city ordinances. You can get caught up on any of those, if somebody is really looking to nail you for something. All my information is WAAAY out of date, like a decade or more, but it wouldn't surprise me a bit if BDSM was still counted as sexual assault in some areas of the south and midwest. This does not mean that it isn't practiced, just that there are some really strict anti-sodomy laws that include any form of non-vanilla-missionary-position-and-therefore-theoretically-procreative sexual contact.
What burned the reality of it into my brain, as an impressionable teenager, was the man who was imprisoned for aggrivated sexual assault and sodomy for tying up his wife and then going down on her, in the privacy of their own bedroom. She used it against him in a later divorce case, not only getting the judge to rule in her favor but also getting him thrown in jail in the process. This was almost twenty years ago, but these laws often lurk in the books for decades without being changed, because it never occurs to most people to look up the laws in their state and find out that, for instance, pigs must wear pants on sundays.
Actually, the more vehemently a society cries out against this sort of thing, the more kinky their society turns out to be, by and large, under the thin veneer of pseudo-respectability. Of course, historically speaking, you can learn what sorts of things people do socially by reading the etiquette guides of the day. Everything the zeitgeist of miss manners tells you not to do, is exactly what everybody happens to be doing at that time.
Funny thing, that.
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