Adultery Is Still Illegal In MIssissippi

[discocrisco01]

The Mississippi Code of 1972 states

SEC. 97-29-1. Adultery and fornication; unlawful cohabitation.

If any man and woman shall unlawfully cohabit, whether in adultery or fornication, they shall be fined in any sum not more than five hundred dollars each, and imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months; and it shall not be necessary, to constitute the offense, that the parties shall dwell together publicly as husband and wife, but it may be proved by circumstances which show habitual sexual intercourse.


SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 1(58); 1857, ch. 64, art. 8; 1871, Sec. 2486; 1880, Sec. 2700; 1892, Sec. 953; 1906, Sec. 1029; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 754; 1930, Sec. 772; 1942, Sec. 1998.

My question: I have no clue why this law in still on the books there. I know these laws, even in Mississippi, are never enforced but why not scrap them for good. They are a reminder of a harsh morality of a prior age where the court judged for your conduct in the bedroom.

[NeedleCast]

1. Still illegal in the military too

[LeftinOH]

2. Good for them! Anyone violating the sanctity of traditional marriage should be punished-

:sarcasm:

[rurallib]

3. No - I believe these laws are on their way back

What with all the fuss about gay marriage breaking up hetero marriage, there has been a movement to outlaw sex outside of marriage and divorce once again! I mean, c'mon repubes, if you believe in marriage by Jove make a stand!

[NNN0LHI]

4. Still illegal in Afghanistan too

[jody]

5. There’s always “Married for a Minute” in Iran for Muslims.

Married for a Minute

Remarkably, Iran's Shiite clerics not only tolerate sigheh, but actively promote it as an important element of the country's official religion. "Temporary marriages must be bravely promoted," the interior minister said at a clerical conference in Qom in 2007. "Islam is in no way indifferent to the needs of a 15-year-old youth in whom God has placed the sex drive." Yet the Iranian mullahs' efforts to rehabilitate sigheh have met a stubborn core of resistance—particularly from feminists, who decry the practice as a kind of "Islamic prostitution." Which is it—an empowering possibility for women, or a back door to exploitation? How Iranians answer that question provides a glimpse into the surprisingly fluid attitudes toward the authority of the clerics who back President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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Habib has never had sex outside marriage. "Even if I wanted to have an hour-long relationship with a woman, I want to do it in a religious framework," he said. "When you set the time in a temporary marriage, you follow all the Islamic codes and regulations. The woman is also satisfied and content." Everyone is happy, Habib said—except, truth be told, his permanent wife of 29 years. Habib told her about one of his temporary wives, but she has no idea about the others. "If she knew, she would decapitate me," he said with a cheery lack of concern. "She cannot even stand the first one."

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"Most of us, we like to imitate all things from Western countries," said 27-year-old Sina Ahmadinejad (no relation to the president). "Being boyfriend and girlfriend is much fancier than sigheh." For young liberals like him, dating has become an act of protest, while sigheh remains inescapably Islamic—and uncool.

[Gaedel]

6. Adultery

When Moses came down from the top of the mountain, he addressed the Children of Israel.

"I have good news and bad news for you."

"The good news is that I have got Him down to ten."

"The bad news is that adultery is still in."

[jody]

7. Moses: Good news - multiple wives permitted, bad news - each gets to advise the husband. n/t