Hopefully no one lives in Virginia here..

[conehead180]

Y'know, it's things like that that make me so only for female tickling. I mean, it really doesn't make any sense at all, but it's there. But of course it's fine to tickle guys! Grrrrr!!!

Here's a link to more stupid laws there.

http://www.ahajokes.com/laws046.html

 

[Ross]

I've heard about this law too, but it is probably one of the stupidest laws I've ever heard of, and it would have to be unenforced. Imagine the cops running around to every couple's dwelling place, checking for tickling. There are states where anal sex is illegal too, but you wouldnt have the cops breaking down every couple's door to check to see is having anal sex or not. The no tickling in VA law is an ancient, stupid, and unenforcable law. Even if the cops see couples tickling each other in public, I highly doubt anyone would actually be arrested or ticketed for it.

MitchellR

 

[Sarusuke]

I wonder what the actual reasons were for passing a law that makes it illegal to tickle a female.

It's probably an old law that was written when public flirting was discouraged by law, and they probably needed to specify what was okay and what wasn't just so everyone knew. I doubt it's has been enforced more than a couple times in the 20th century. You'd probably have to inform a police officer of the law's existance, prove its existance by citing the state legal code, deliberately tickle girls in front of the officer, and then demand that you be arrested or fined or ticketed or whatever the penalty is if you want to get anyone to enforce it. Might be a good publicity stunt for something though.

It used to be illegal in one town in Maine to tickle a woman's chin with a feather duster. It's not on the books anymore, but I wonder why it was so specific.