Sure, it's not widely enforced -- but Virginia Democrats say it's time to scratch the relic of a law for good. After potentially hundreds of years on the books, the Virginia House of Delegates repealed the"crime of fornication" last week. In the Virginia Code, fornication -- consensual sex with an unmarried person -- isn't legal. Guilty parties could pay a $250 fine.
Mark Sickles attempted to strike"fornication" from the Code of Virginia in 2014, but it died in committee. Levine tried to repeal it twice: First in 2018, again in 2020. This is the closest it's come to being struck. Levine told CNN that fornication was still being charged as a crime as recently as five years ago, when prosecutors wanted to"pile on" the charges to people accused of sex crimes. It's also been used as a plea, he said, though it's fairly uncommon.
Please pass a law against adultery in Wash. DC. And Mar a Lago?
CNN BREAKING NEWS from last week!
Well, how about people just do it inside? And not tell people about it.
What a waste of time
Whew, so all that breaking the law with hookers is now legal,
Is this you carterforva?
It's no ones business what two consenting adults do in private.
WTF is this? Wonders will never cease
Virginia here I come 🏃🏾♂️
Wtf.
MUUUUUuUUuuUuUUuUuuRicA
Who's actually policing this?
Is this 17th Century America? Where are the Puritans?
What!!
Astonished that this law exists. Must be honoured more in the breach than in the observation.
If it happens it happens, even if there was a law in CA when I was 15, not real sure I would have known
😱 Is that still a thing?
😂😁 دا من الاول كان ممنوع من عندنا اتفضلوا يجماعة بتستغربوا الموضوع ليه 😁
Wait. How are my friends not in jail?
WTH what age is this hello gotta be a joke 😳
That's insane but those were very old rules still on books for some reason, I'm sure no interracial marriages allowed are on it too?
America. The weirdest land of all. The place where its against the law to get an erection. Where a child can buy Guns and Ammo magazine, but you need to be at least 18 to buy a mag with a nude person in it. Good ole 'Merica. The dump of dumps.
More meaningless pandering legislation the supreme Court overturned this year's ago
😂There's so many ridiculous laws that need to be repealed.😂
That’s fun.
I’m sure no one ever broke that law.