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What About Sodomy?
I find this perplexing: A former teacher at Early High School turned herself in to police last week and was charged with having an inappropriate relationship with an 18-year-old male student...

WTF is Oral Sodomy?
Is that what I think it is? Is that what the kids are doing these days? Licking butt? Man alive. Anyway: An Oklahoma sheriff has been charged with 35 felonies this week, including 14 counts of rape and the seven…

Men Charged Under NC Sodomy Law
A law which was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2003. The News Observer reports on a case where police were summoned to a home where one man claims the other man assaulted him, but they ended up arresting both men and charging them with "crimes against nature," which means the sodomy laws that were overturned by Lawrence v Texas...

The Sodomy House
Not really crime-related, as far as I know, but it was too weird NOT to pass along, either. If you thought the housing market was tough before ...

"Sodomy and Civil Rights"
It is a day for law student responses. Oklahoma law student, Nicholas Bender responds David Weiss' "Sodomy and Civil Rights" posted here: "David Weiss defines sodomy this way: "Sodomy happens when any group uses their majority or their power to...

Another Response to Sodomy and Civil Rights
MOJ-reader Jonathan Watson sends this response to David Weiss's piece on committed same-sex relationships and sodomy: " Dear Prof...