OLYMPIC athletes looking to work off the effects of too many steroids had better watch out: they could run foul of some bizarre laws dating back to the days of Scarlett O’Hara which were designed to keep Southern morality intact.
Oral sex carries a possible life prison sentence in the state of Georgia. There are currently 30 people serving sentences in Georgia jails for the offence, which the state’s penal code puts under the peculiar category of “sodomy”. Such laws are not uncommon in the conservative Deep South, and have survived despite the sexual revolution and the fourth amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects citizens’ right to privacy.
While oral sex may be decidedly risky, necrophilia carries only a two-and-a-half year sentence, and bestiality a mere three months.