Laws And Love
June, 1990
When law goes to bed with sex, the offspring belong in a freak show. Reading from East to West:Virginia: The Supreme Court of Virginia, where premarital sex is a crime, has rejected the claim of a woman who sued her ex-husband for $2,500,000 for allegedly infecting her with herpes three weeks before they were married. The court ruled unanimously that she was not entitled to damages because she contracted the disease as "a participant in the unlawful act of fornication." As a general ru...
