In North Dakota, playing house is a sex crime:

[Praxius]

In North Dakota, playing house is a sex crime - CNN.com

In North Dakota, a man and woman who live together without being married are committing a sex crime. It's right there in the law, a state senator says, alongside the prohibitions against adultery, incest and indecent exposure.

He he..... now that's just silly.

Tom Freier, a spokesman for the North Dakota Family Alliance, said repealing North Dakota's anti-cohabitation law would signal that the state doesn't value marriage and the societal benefits it brings. "If we look at the research, social science evidence suggests that living together is not a good way to prepare for marriage, or to avoid divorce," Freier said. "Cohabitating is not positive for the family, and poses a special risk for women and children."

Really? What special Risk?

[PatrickHenry]

What's the penalty for violating this statute?

[Praxius]

Quote by: PatrickHenry What's the penalty for violating this statute?

Not much from what I gather:

The state has prohibited opposite-sex couples from living "openly and notoriously" as if they were married since North Dakota became a state in 1889. Florida, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia have similar laws. Attorneys say North Dakota's law has never been vigorously enforced. There is only one North Dakota Supreme Court decision on the subject, a 1938 case in which the justices upheld the cohabitation convictions of a man and woman who had been living together in the back of their secondhand store. "If we mean to enforce this law, we'll need a $10 billion prison," Potter said. "We really don't want to enforce the law, and if we don't mean to enforce it, it's an insult to law enforcement to keep it on the books."

[PatrickHenry]

And there it is...a law that causes us all to be scofflaws...

[Critter]

Okay, so if you're a female and have a male roommate, it's against the law? Even if you're not doing anything?

Seems to me that anyone in this position would only have to claim this.

[Osborn F Enready]

Seems to me the "gubbmint" would have to get past the gun between me and them before they could do a damn thing about it.

[Critter]

Fair enough...

[Praxius]

Quote by: Critter Okay, so if you're a female and have a male roommate, it's against the law? Even if you're not doing anything? Seems to me that anyone in this position would only have to claim this.

That's it in a nutshell. Unless you are married, it is illegal to live with someone of the opposite sex by that law.

Crazy bible belt laws..... wait.... is N.Dakota in that area?

[pandaz xx]

That's ridiculous.