Lewd and Lascivious

 

Lewd: crude and offensive in a sexual way.

Lascivious: (of a person, manner, or gesture) feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire.

“Lewd and lascivious” conduct is defined as a sexual act that is offensive to community standards of decency. “Lewd and lascivious” conduct is a type of sex crime often charged as a felony sex offense. One example of this kind of conduct is intentionally groping a minor. The penalties for a conviction can be severe.

 

“Lewd and lascivious” is legal description for conduct regarding immoral sexual intent or behavior. It’s frequently used in the legal description of offenses where some type of sexual activity is prohibited.

The legal term “lewd and lascivious” typically refers to a crime that occurs when an adult has sexual contact with an underage child. A violation of PC 288(a) when the victim is under 14 years old is always a felony and a “strike” under California's Three Strikes Law.

However, under California law, anyone involved in sexual activity with a person under the age of 18 may be prosecuted, including another minor. In California, minors can never legally consent to sexual activity.

“Lewd and lascivious” conduct is sexual conduct that appeals to the lust, passions, or sexual desires of either the defendant or the victim, or both. “Lewd and lascivious” conduct generally, though not always, requires physical contact between the parties, but does not require penetration.

 

If you have read any of my post you should understand my thoughts of religion and sex. If not I’d advice looking back through a few years. You can search terms like ‘faith’ or ‘trust’, but yet I digress.

We, homo erecticus, have been placed on this blue marble to procreate. If the Supreme Being that first breathed life from the stardust had just made us Adams, we could have had a great sports bar but couldn’t reproduce. If you believe we came out of a mud puddle we had to have a method of splitting cells into another and over evolution formed our own stamens and pistil to pollinate the next brew.

So Adam and Eve each had a purpose. She provided the vessel to accept the seed and carry until birth then supply food and he was just a stud. This was so much fun, religion had to be constructed to restrain the behavior.

 

Today our community (the earth) does follow most of the rules. In public places we cover our bodies (for the most part) as not to incite lascivious behavior. Still on all our media we are tempted.

Even our vows of emotional permanent bonding cannot avoid the occasional taste of the desires. The courts are full of our indiscretions.

 

If you read the daily news you understand that ‘we’ are an abusive species. We raise animals to slaughter them and eat them. We find excuses to fight and kill each other.

All along we abuse, harass, derogate, demine and rape our mothers. The ones who are held in relevance to be pure and chase and moral are just as naughty as the rest of us. What is the age limit?

 

In the animal kingdom (yes, we are also in there) when she is in ‘heat’ (prime ovulation time) anyone will poke her no matter the relationship. Check your local tavern at closing time.

 

Not saying we should be proud of this behavior, but we should recognize our limitation to desire. No matter which end of the stick you are, judge what we do and have done and will do in the future.