Comments on: Passing thought on Scalia’s dissent

By: JennHi

JennHi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

“…such a ruling might get in the way of state laws outlawing masturbation.” I really shouldn’t have been drinking coffee so close to the keyboard when I read that.

By: Marie Foster

Marie Foster — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Are there any states who actually have anti-masturbation laws on the books?

What it seems to me that they don’t get is that SOME things that are unlawful in public are lawful in private. It is perfectly reasonable to have a law that makes it illegal for me to sit on a park bench and masturbate or I guess to have someone sodomize me, and still have it be lawful in the privacy of my home.

While I understand that there are slopes and some are actually slippery. Some are not.

I think that these people have a hard time thinking in shades of grey. Maybe they are value blind.
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By: Lis

Lis — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

What are the proposed penalties for masturbation?

Clearly, a slap on the wrist must play in there somewhere…

By: Amy S.

Amy S. — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I was thinking more along the lines of the cops secretly replacing the AA batteries in my nightstand drawer with Folgers Crystals ™.

By: QrazyQat

QrazyQat — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Against the law?!? Isn’t going blind ENOUGH punishment?

By: David Chess

David Chess — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I poked around the Web a bit looking for state anti-masturbation laws, and didn’t find any, at least not any against solo private wanking-off. I suspect that () in fact Scalia just added that to make his list longer, and () if pressed, he’ll clarify to say that he meant (say) laws against masturbating someone else for money (say), which is perhaps not technically prostitution and therefore perhaps not technically blatant list-padding, or (say) against mutual masturbation between unmarried persons, which is of course a terrible sin and should be illegal. But if someone does find a state law against solitary wanking-off, I’d love to hear about it!

By: r@d@r

r@d@r — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

you must remember that part of the sexual pathology of social moralists is the frisson they experience from doing something that’s bad, and illegality certainly ups the ante considerably. in other words, he wants it to be illegal because that’ll make him cum harder.

sorry, i want to take a shower after reading that last line too, but i think it’s true.

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

That’s got to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. Scalia’s an idiot.

By: PG

PG — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Actually, there are state laws against commerce in masturbation aids. But obviously commerce is a more appropriate subject for state regulation than one’s relations with, er, oneself.

By: Elayne Riggs

Elayne Riggs — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Well, you know what they say, more than three strikes is indeed a wank.

By: arizona dui lawyer

arizona dui lawyer — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Public masturbation I can understand, but practically speaking it seems to be more an exercise of mental masturbation on the part of Judges and prosecutors if they think that masturbation, done tastefully and in privacy can every be proven at trial… assuming decent corpus delicti laws in the state in question. Also, what jury would not nullify in a case like that?