End Closet Laws

Laws that are not enforced, should not be on the books..
Let’s join together to remove laws that could drive us back into the closet

Current Laws:

Cathedral City: 5.18.005 Prohibited uses, conduct and activities. C. A “sexual encounter establishment” is not a permitted use.
For purposes of these regulations, a sexual encounter establishment means any business or commercial establishment that as one of its important business purposes offers for any form of consideration a place where two or more persons may congregate, associate, or consort for the purpose of specified sexual activities when one or more of the persons of the establishment is in a state of nudity or where two or more persons may congregate, associate, or consort for the purpose of the exposure of specified anatomical areas where one of the patrons of the establishment is in a state of nudity or state of semi-nudity.
Here are the Specified Sexual Activities:

“Specified anatomical area” means and includes any of the following:
1. Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, anus, buttocks, or a female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola;
2. The human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.
(REALLY?? hard cock in jeans is illegal?)

Palm Springs is no better:
5.77.055 Sex clubs prohibited. – Sex clubs, as defined in Section 5.77.010, are prohibited. (Ord. 1511 § 2, 1995)
“Sex club” means any establishment not primarily dedicated to providing overnight lodging accommodations, including a private club, which as a regular and substantial course of conduct permits persons to engage in specified sexual activities in any public or semipublic portion of the establishment or which provides any private room to persons more than once in a twenty hour period in which persons are permitted to engage in specified sexual activities. For the purpose of this section, a “public or semipublic portion of an establishment” shall mean any portion of the establishment in which invitees of the establishment are permitted access and which is not let, leased or rented more than once in a twenty-hour period to persons who are entitled to exclusive use of the room.

>>> but wait , here is the your home is a sex club part <<<<
The above notwithstanding, a “sex club” is also any place which represents itself to any person or group of persons as a place for persons to engage in specified sexual activities.

Palm Springs – Specified sexual activities” means:
(1) Actual or simulated sexual intercourse, oral copulation, anal intercourse, oral/anal copulation, bestiality, direct physical stimulation of unclothed genitals, flagellation or torture in the context of a sexual relationship, or the use of excretory function in the context of a sexual relationship, any of the following depicted sexually oriented acts or conduct: anilingus, buggery, coprophagy, coprophilia, cunnilingus, fellatio, necrophilia, pederasty, pedophilia, piquerism, sapphism, zooerastia;
(2) Clearly depicted human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation, arousal or tumescence;
(3) Use of human or animal ejaculation, sodomy, oral copulation, coitus or masturbation;
(4) Fondling or touching of nude human genitals, pubic region, buttocks or female breast;
(5) Masochism, erotic or sexually oriented torture, beating or the infliction of pain;
(6) Erotic or lewd touching, fondling or other sexually oriented contact with an animal by a human being;
(7) Human excretion, urination, menstruation, vaginal or anal irrigation;
(8) Striptease or the removal of clothing to the point where specified anatomical parts are not opaquely covered.

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