Will Massachusetts make it a crime to lie to get sex?
Posted by Mr. Thoughtful on May 6, 2008
If this bill becomes a law in Massachusetts, it might be a crime to inflate your income on your online dating profile. If you put your income in the “over $150,000″ category when actually make 125,000, a woman searches for guys who make over 150,000, the two of you meet, date, have sex, and she eventually discovers you make less than 150,000, will she be able to get the District Attorney to send you to prison for life?
Cheating on One’s Lover = Future Felony in Massachusetts?
That’s what would happen under a proposed statute that’s being promoted by Massachusetts state representative Peter Koutoujian…
I suspect that this isn’t the goal of the drafters, but that’s what the language would call for, when (as I’m pretty sure happens quite often) the cheater has sex afterwards with the regular lover without disclosing the cheating. Here’s what the proposed law says:
Whoever has sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse with a person having obtained that person’s consent by the use of fraud, concealment or artifice, and who thereby intentionally deceived such person so that a reasonable person would not have consented but for the deception, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or any term of years. As used in this statute, ‘fraud’ or ‘artifice’ shall not be construed to mean a promise of future consideration.
hat tip: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_05_04-2008_05_10.shtml#1210012100
