[Question_Assumptions]

I doubt that you'll find may prosecutions that involved anyone looking into anyone else's bedroom when they keep the door closed and the curtains pulled. It's more likely that most prosecutions involve these activities being performed in public places.

[July 4th]

A lot of places try to leave laws like this on the books so they can get people on something if all of the other charges dry up. Like if the cops busted in on a drug dealer having sex with another woman (not his wife), but if the drugs were somehow excluded at trial. Then you'd actually prosecute the charge.

In Wisconsin, we do that all the time with the bail jumping charge. It rarely gets charged, unless it's the only thing that the prosecutor can make stick.

[NJ_gent]

"It's more likely that most prosecutions involve these activities being performed in public places."

Then you prosecute the offenders for breaking the real laws they've broken - lewd acts in a public place, indecent exposure, etc. Also, are you saying that it should be perfectly legal for a married heterosexual couple to have sex in public places? I know you're not - it just goes to show the true intended purpose of these types of laws: regulation of personal intimate relationships. If that isn't about the last thing government should be doing, I really don't know what is.