Courting Disaster
December, 1986
Courting DisasterHow secure is freedom in America? On the eve of the 200th anniversary of our Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided, in Bowers vs. Hardwick, that any American can be prosecuted under a statute providing a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for engaging in "any sexual act involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another." Neither married couples nor any other consenting adults have a "fundamental right" to have oral (continu...