If you get fooled into this one, it's either you want it to happen, or you deserve to be taken advantage of.

I get the feeling that the "pretending to be a spouse" one works best in Utah. As for the latter, I think I'll try to get my hands on a stethascope next time I plan on a night out at the bar, oh, and a nurse outfit for my wingman.

I don't know how many times I have been fooled into that one! Some guy walks up to me on the street and says "Where have you been? Don't you know I am your spouse??" And I say "Oh yeah I forgot Sweety" to not sound stupid... Then he takes me behind the 711 or behind a dumpster somewhere and starts touching me. As I object he says "Don't worry, I am a doctor". They say I am healthy usually but they never call..

I know I can be a little dense at times, but I sure don't get this one?

Pretending to be a spouse???!!!

There is an often hilarious book of tales from Italy, from the 1300's, called "The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio that was a big influence on Chaucer, it's very akin to "The Canterbury Tales." There is a figure in one of the tales who tops pretending to be a spouse or medical professional, he is a sinister fraud, very good at fooling people into getting money and other things- who dresses up as one, plays the role perfectly pretends to be a PRIEST TO GET WOMEN IN THE SACK.

I never thought of this one! You mean, all I have to do is pass myself off as Kevin Kline and I can have my way with Phoebe Cates? Cool!! I'm running out to the video store now to rent Wild, Wild West and A Fish Called Wanda so I can start studying my subject matter immediately!

I've tried both with no success. Now, give me a clown wig, pair of cowboy boots and a bottle of Hai Karate and no one's safe.

Didn't try this one in college. . ."the LOVE doctor. . .is IN!"

Info from Disinformation Book of Lists by Russ Kick Ironically, this law is on the books in one of the more liberal states, namely California. Granted, the law predates the liberalism, and I haven't been able to find any instance of an actual conviction. Like other states, California defines sodomy as contact between the penis of one person and the anus of another. The act is not always illegal, but one condition making it illegal for the penis user "where the victim submits under the belief that the person commiting the act (aren't they both acting?) is the victim's spouse, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief." Punishment is up to eight years jail. What do you suppose happened that led to this law? They ought to make a movie about it! Meanwhile, going up somebody's rear is also illegal when the recipient "was not aware, knowing, perceiving, or cognizant of the essential characteristics of the act due to the perpetrator's fraudulent representation that the sexual penetration served a professional purpose when it served no professional purpose." The only possibility I can see for an incident inspiring this law is that a proctologist must have told his victim that he was going to stick a finger in and instead slipped in his schlong. I have to say, that'd piss me off, but boy, I think I'd have to be daydreaming deep for it to happen. Incidently, because sodomy incorporates oral sex, these laws apply there as well. To sum up, Russ Kicks advises: "if you're in the Sunshine State, don't fool someone into anal (or oral) sex by pretending to be her husband, and don't tell someone that going down on him/her serves a professional purpose when it really doesn't, okay?" Updating: In response to some of the other posts wondering how such a thing could happen (re misrepresentations of spousehood), and reminding you that these laws generally come about as a response to an actual event; let's remember that in some cultures marriage is pre-arranged. I don't know if you can be married in absentia in any of these cultures, for instance I'm pretty sure Hassidic Jews have to be present for their own marriage. But there was in California in the 19th and early 20th centuries massive immigration from Asia, and an industry of "mail order brides" (that unfortunately survives to this day). Again, I'm speculating.