It’s 2020 and 16 states still have sodomy laws on the books.

Rally in Copley Square, Boston to celebrate the US Supreme Court decision to strike down a sodomy law in Lawrence v Texas. (Image: Rick Friedman/Corbis)

In 2020, there are 16 US states that still have sodomy laws against “perverted sexual practice” and “crimes against nature”.

According to ACLU, laws against sodomy were originally designed to prohibit any sex that was not for procreation, and so included crimes…