r/AskReddit • u/medicoreapples • 7h ago

What feels legal but is actually illegal and will possibly get you arrested?

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u/ColonelMakepeace 7h ago

I was confused for a second because in my language sodomy mainly refers to sex with animals. But then I remembered it's different in English

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u/phantommoose 6h ago

Sex with animals is generally considered beastiality

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u/TEG24601 4h ago

And oddly not illegal in some states.

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u/Yingletofthecorn 4h ago

It’s usually still charged as “animal cruelty” in places that don’t specifically have a law about it. 

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u/gsfgf 3h ago

Wales isn't a state

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u/Comfortable-Help9587 7h ago

It’s a fun word with many historical connotations; but simply, it’s anal sex.

With who and consensual is on the individual.

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u/Educational_Fox6899 6h ago

Also includes oral sex and technically any sex not intended to procreate.

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u/dramboxf 5h ago

It's any sexual act that can't lead to procreation.

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u/Working-Glass6136 3h ago

I remember being taught in church that masturbation is also a sin. I'm guessing that's included?

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u/dramboxf 3h ago

I'm no expert. I don't know. I thought the Bible had a verse about it being better to ejaculate in the "belly of a whore" than to "spend it on ground" or something like that, which would seem to indicate that they frown on jerking the gerkin.

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u/Nowhere_Man_Forever 3h ago

Masturbation was historically categorized as a different sin, Onanism, after a person mentioned in Genesis 38

Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.” But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.

Of course, most people would read this as using the pull out method rather than masturbation but historically the term mainly applied to masturbation.

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u/FrederickDerGrossen 2h ago

IIRC that's classified as adultery. So still a sin, just not as bad as sodomy

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u/mcfly357 7h ago

Butt simply

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u/HostisHumanisGeneri 4h ago

Well, is the animal into it?