Re: fic To those who wait; (HEAVY NC17!) Willow+co rescu...

["ebailey140" <ebailey140@xxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, danspector@w... wrote:

> Since I know where to find the California Civil Code on-line (I had a
> rent dispute once), it was no trouble to find the Criminal Code as well,
> and this is what I discovered:   Buffy would only have been breaking the
> laws against underaged sex, as both incest and homosexuality have been
> decriminalized in California.  
>
> (The relevant section was [and is still] entitled 
> "Bigamy, Incest, and The Crime Against Nature", but all but the
> anti-bigamy laws have been superceded by subsequent amendments.  As I
> say, an odd fact.
>
> Oh, and sex with minors is only a felony if, IIRC, the adult is over 21
> and the minor under 16 [or the adult over 18 and the minor under 14].
> So technically, Buffy only had legal worries from January through
> September, 2002, more or less.)
>
> Not that I think this justifies B/D (and it does not in any way loosen
> the B/D ban here), but as the legal issues have been raised, I find it
> interesting that the actual law here is relatively forgiving.

IIRC, the incest laws, most places, are about m/f incest, due to the
possibility of producing a child.  When those laws were drafted, no
one thought of siblings of the same gender getting involved.  So, it's
not technically illegal, just, well...  frowned on, heavily.

E





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