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To: Qwerty
I'm not very familiar with this case, but you'd think it'd be unconstitutional since fellatio is legal for women but illegal for men.

Say, what?

I don't think you can make such a blanket statement. It depends on how an individual law is crafted in a specfic jurisdiction. It may be that you could mount an "equal protections' challenge to a spicific law that applied only to men, but to say that any oral sex ban would fail on this account shows a remarkable lack of imagination.

In fact to write a law that makes fellatio illegal for men and legal for women would take a bit of creative writing in the first place.

What jurisdiction do you believe has such a law?

54 posted on 04/24/2003 7:10:42 AM PDT by John Valentine (Writing from downtown Seoul, keeping an eye on the hills to the north.)
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To: John Valentine
"It depends on how an individual law is crafted in a specfic jurisdiction. It may be that you could mount an "equal protections' challenge to a spicific law that applied only to men, but to say that any oral sex ban would fail on this account shows a remarkable lack of imagination."

Well not really. Sodomy is only illegal if it is homosexual. Therefore, you've crafted a law that says women can perform fellatio, but not men. Men can perform cunnilingus, but not women. I think you have an equal protection issue there.

55 posted on 04/24/2003 7:19:42 AM PDT by Qwerty
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