Virginia is for lovers — the married kind. According to state code, it's illegal for unmarried people to have consensual sex. But the House of Delegates repealed the 'crime of fornication' last week. The state Senate must pass the bill for it to proceed.
Sure, it's not widely enforced -- but Virginia Democrats say it's time to scratch the relic of a law for good. After potentially hundreds of years on the books, the Virginia House of Delegates repealed the"crime of fornication" last week. In the Virginia Code, fornication -- consensual sex with an unmarried person -- isn't legal. Guilty parties could pay a $250 fine.
Mark Sickles attempted to strike"fornication" from the Code of Virginia in 2014, but it died in committee. Levine tried to repeal it twice: First in 2018, again in 2020. This is the closest it's come to being struck. Levine told CNN that fornication was still being charged as a crime as recently as five years ago, when prosecutors wanted to"pile on" the charges to people accused of sex crimes. It's also been used as a plea, he said, though it's fairly uncommon.
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