FFS!!! - (2024) A criminal court in South Florida sentenced a man for having consensual sex with another man. [View all]

(2024) A criminal court in South Florida sentenced a man for having consensual sex with another man, holding that the defendant committed an unnatural and lascivious act.

This year, a criminal court in South Florida sentenced a man for having consensual sex with another man, holding that the defendant “ committed an unnatural and lascivious act, to wit, performing and receiving oral sex from co-defendant.” Unnoticed and unreported, the ruling violates U.S. constitutional law — 15 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court abolished anti-sodomy laws nationwide. Florida still has’t repealed its own.

In February, the Vice, Narcotics and Intelligence unit of the Hollywood, Florida, police raided a sex shop where, undercover, they paid to access a locked area of the store with private rooms and theaters. There, with pornography playing on the walls, past the sex toys and condoms and DVDs, the detectives arrested the defendant and five other men. They were charged with crimes against nature and exposing sexual organs in public. Now, the store sits at the back of a dead-end road between I-95 and the railroad tracks — the entrance of the pay-to-enter area has a giant red neon sign above it that says: Private Viewing. The name of the store is the Pleasure Emporium.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article219525910.html#storylink=cpy