Here Come the Sex Police

Sunday's edition of The Washington Post had a fascinating article about a recent prosecution under Virginia's anti-adultery law. Not surprisingly, the defendant in this case, a former town attorney, was "turned in" by his former mistress once he broke of their affair. He waffled about his defense, and eventually decided to take a plea rather than challenge the law in light of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Lawrence v. Texas. The article gives some good background on where these kind of ridiculous laws came from and argues that they should be on their last legs.