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"The Abominable And Detestable Crime Against Nature"

Sep 11, 2009
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WTF?

The first time I ever read that term (it's an Anglo-American common law phrase meaning unorthodox, usually gay, sex) I had no idea what it meant, because I was probably six or seven years old.

But there it was, in the "Police News" section of a cruddy small-town newspaper, that Mr. X and Mr. Y had been arrested for crimes against nature, in the men's room at a highway rest stop.  What could they have done?  Defied gravity?  Fused atoms at room temperature?  Reversed the flow of time?

In fact, until today, I'd never read about any crime where the term actually seemed to fit.  Until today, that is.

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  1. SB7  •  Sep 11, 2009 @1:51 pm

    That is ancient-Greek-tragedy caliber weird. Excuse me while I go scour out my short term memory with the strongest solvents in the house.

  2. Ken  •  Sep 11, 2009 @2:02 pm

    Yeah, that defense lawyer comment is an excellent example of one that is notably worse than simply saying "no comment."

  3. Old Geezer  •  Sep 11, 2009 @2:16 pm

    Wait a minute! You were reading the "Police News" at the age of six? Was "Where the Wild Things Are" too tame?

  4. Bob  •  Sep 11, 2009 @2:20 pm

    This doesn't even make sense.

  5. Casey  •  Sep 11, 2009 @2:27 pm

    ABC distastefully characterizes the rape of a minor as a "summer romance."

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/michigan-mom-aimee-louise-sword-faces-trial-incest/story?id=8548830

  6. Dwight Brown  •  Sep 11, 2009 @2:36 pm

    "Wait a minute! You were reading the 'Police News' at the age of six? Was 'Where the Wild Things Are' too tame?"

    Don't know about Patrick, but I was reading anything I could get my hands on (including the daily paper, including the police blotter) at the age of six. And, yes, at that time, most of what would have been called 'age-appropriate' literature was too tame for me.

    (You know, I wonder whatever happenend to C.B. Colby. I also wonder who else recognizes that name.)

  7. Patrick  •  Sep 11, 2009 @2:38 pm

    “summer romance"

    What the HELL?

  8. Patrick  •  Sep 11, 2009 @2:41 pm

    By the way Dwight, I remember C.B. Colby.

    P-51 Mustang fighters, the Vaught F-4U Corsair, and the wonders of the atomic bomb!

  9. Chris Berez  •  Sep 11, 2009 @3:04 pm

    Welp, that's the most horrifying thing I've read in months.

    Good god, the mind reels…

  10. Legally UnBound  •  Sep 11, 2009 @5:21 pm

    "his first sexual experience could be something so conflicted, so unusual, so prohibited that it will stay with him for life," Shiener said.

    Sounds gay to me…come one, you know she is cute, so what is the real harm.

    Men can have sex with each other, but a young, naive, underage boy is not allowed to have sex with him Mom. You guys have such a double standard. I'm disgusted.

  11. Bob Smith  •  Sep 12, 2009 @1:54 am

    ABC distastefully characterizes the rape of a minor as a “summer romance.”

    The sexism is palpable. Anybody taking bets on whether they'd describe a male perp/female victim that way?

  12. Robert  •  Sep 14, 2009 @8:11 am

    Few people will even admit that a women can be a child molester. I was horrified, for example, to see many people calling for "death" to Philip Garrido, even though his wife, Nancy Garrido was charged with the EXACT SAME CRIMES.

    All I can say is, "Hooray for Women's Lib!" Women can now do anything men can.

  13. Robert  •  Sep 14, 2009 @8:12 am

    Oh, and if this had been a *man* who tracked down his *daughter* on the Internet and raped her, Nancy Pelosi would be calling for a new law!

  14. Bob  •  Sep 14, 2009 @9:08 am

    From that ABC news link… one of the 3 related stories: "All About Intensity? 'Kinky' Sex on the Rise"