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Gay sex wins again
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I’m joining the war on gay sex on the side of gay sex
“I bet we can fuck in the Hart building and get away with it”
I don’t know how that can possibly be true but I support it
"Aint no rule says we can't do it doggystyle in the rotunda."
based 
Dudes stay rocking
say gex
Oh yea…. It’s Tail Time
So they didn't have any laws on the books that prohibited what happened?
I am definitely not a lawyer, but I think conviction for indecent exposure/lascivious conduct often requires someone to actually witness the perpetrator(s). Since no one actually caught them in flagrante delicto, that condition wouldn't apply. Other things that aren't issues, off the top of my head:
- They didn't access the building unlawfully
- All parties in the video consented to both the sex and the recording
- D.C. no longer has any sodomy laws
- Video wasn't filmed/distributed for commercial purposes
It's just hard to identify a harmed party when you think about it. It'd be nice to hear an analysis from someone who understands the D.C. criminal statute and its interpretation, though--I wouldn't be surprised if their conduct is illegal in other jurisdictions.
Not authoritative, but I did find this page from a D.C. law firm which states:
Indecent exposure requires exposure at a time and place in which a reasonable person would know that his/her acts will be open to the observation of others. Parnigoni v. District of Columbia, 933 A.2d 823 (D.C. 2007). The accused does not need to have a specific intent to expose himself to any particular person. It is sufficient if the defendant generally intended to expose himself so as to draw attention to his exposed condition. Id.
The required criminal intent for indecent exposure is usually established by evidence indicating that the defendant attempted to draw attention to his exposed condition or by display in a place so public that it must be presumed it was intended to be seen by others. Hearn v. District of Columbia, 178 A.2d 434 (Cr. App. 1962). In other words, surreptitious masturbation in a public place — without more — might not satisfy the requirements of the statute.
If I remember the facts of the case correctly, they were in a hearing room not accessible to the general public. Presumably this was taken at a time where there was no hearing scheduled anytime soon and no reason for anyone to enter that room, so it would be difficult to establish the intent to expose themselves to someone physically present.
(Side note: when I was looking for more info I saw that most of the posts on reddit were from right-wing subreddits with titles that made sure you knew it was SODOMY and ANAL SEX. The horror!)
I appreciate your response, it was well written and answered my questions on the story. It has been an interesting story to see develop. Regardless of legal consequences, the reputation of those men have been considerably tarnished.
It still was very much against their employer’s code of conduct though to have sex at the workplace, so the staffer was fired
True. They really burned some bridges there. They gotta be quite privileged and dumb to do that.
being fired for fucking while other staffers are writing memos on the billions of dollars and weapons that are needed to commit genocide is such a juxtaposition of priorities lol.
It's their residual puritanical colonial mindset.
They are lanyards, so that follows.
New DC tour activity just dropped
You can't have sex in the campaign room, but you can have sex in the Heart Senate Office.
Yeah stuff like mile high club is legaler than you think, one time I took weed gummies with my ex-boyfriend before a flight which gave us the brilliant idea to go to the first class bathroom together at 4am to "make out," he gave me a blowjob and that was that. It's literally only illegal if you're caught in the act and something like that you physically can't be, just don't make noise
Not recommending or condoning it we're just fucking stupid stoner college kids. If someone saw us coming out, we pass as two straight guys so we thought we'd say something like "we're just friends who needed somewhere private to talk about something personal" 
In the off chance someone presses you can just pull a limited hangout and say this is the first time you're seeing each other in a while and you wanted to kiss, there's literally no way they can know you did more
common gay sex w
I just got the most amazing idea for the hexbear meetup location
The lack of corpus delecti makes someone's corpus erecti
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