The Wauwatosa Lovers

February, 1981

Playboy CasebookQuite a few states still have an archaic fornication law buried in the statute books, but only Wisconsin seems to know where to find it and actually to enforce it. The usual result is embarrassment and a small fine to some copulating couple, maybe a divorce if one of the fornicators is married, plus a criminal record as a sex offender. Sometimes the result has been truly tragic: In 1971, a popular Sheboygan high school teacher, facing criminal prosecution for "cohabiting&quo...