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L.A. Suburb Legalizes Adultery

By Jeralyn, Section Crime Policy
Posted on Thu May 22, 2003 at 08:28:38 AM EST
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Enlightenment in the suburbs of Los Angeles.....the town of Rolling Hills has voted to remove its 45 year old ban on adultery and immoral sex. :

The City Council voted last month to repeal an old ordinance that prohibited immoral conduct, including extramarital sex. The law was passed after the city incorporated in 1957.

"So this is a pro-adultery thing?" joked Councilman James Black in an interview with the Daily Breeze newspaper. "Good for us!"

The ordinance, will be formally repealed at the end of this month, banned immoral conduct defined as "any person exposing his or her person or the private parts thereof; or the doing of any other act with the intent of arousing, appealing to or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires of any person to whom he or she is not married."

A thousand miles away, the town of Lakewood, Colorado (suburb of Denver) is moving in the other direction by marshaling all its resources to close down a consenual adult S & M club.

City officials in a Colorado town want to keep an S&M club tied up for good. The city has shut down a sex club, known as "The Labyrinth," featuring nudity and bondage, and officials are seeking an injunction to keep it closed.

Every member of (City) Council was shocked when they heard about it," Mayor Steve Burkholder said Tuesday. "We plan to pursue this with a great deal of effort. It does not reflect the moral value of the city or its citizens."

Police received an anonymous tip in March from a resident who saw a flier for a rave party with live sex acts.

But Susan Wright, spokeswoman for the New York-based National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, contends The Labyrinth is a private club where people who practice alternative sex can socialize. bq. "This is not adult entertainment. It is not a strip club," Wright said. "It's very important that there are zoning categories that allow for a space like this where people can get the education they need to do SM (sadomasochism) and fetish safely. They need to get lessons."

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