UPDATE: 8:45 p.m. -- Garrett said in an email that the point of his bill is not to prohibit oral sex between teens, but to bring the anti-sodomy law into compliance with the Constitution "while still protecting Virginia children from child predators." Garrett said, too, that he was concerned that adults who'd been convicted of violating the "crimes against nature" statute, for sexual acts involving children or teens, "may pursue appeal, and quite possibly be released." This is a puzzling explanation for the new bill. "If he wants to prosecute people who abuse children, why not write a law that would ban abuse of children?" UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh told HuffPost by email. "Virginia law takes the view that ordinary genital sex among 15-to-17-year-olds isn’t abuse at all (and indeed isn’t a crime), and that adult genital sex with 15-to-17-year-olds is a misdemeanor. How is that consistent with making all oral and anal sex with minors (including such sex among 15-to-17-year-old minors) a felony?" "Our office has been inundated with extremely unsavory telephone calls and emails," Garrett said, declining to respond to these specific critiques of his bill, though offering some promise that SB 14 has not yet been viewed in its final form. "For the record, I have heard the concerns and have started to draft an amendment to my bill that will deal with the unintended consequences of a bill that is nothing but well-intended." - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/09/virginia-sodomy-law_n_4568830.html