Ga. Court Strikes Down Unmarried Sex Law - Tue Jan 14, 5:35 AM ET

ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court struck down a 170-year-old law that made it a crime for unmarried people to have sex.

"Our opinion simply affirms that ... the government may not reach into the bedroom of a private residence and criminalize the private, noncommercial, consensual sexual acts of two persons legally capable of consenting to those acts," Chief Justice Norman Fletcher wrote.

Under Georgia law, the age of consent is 16.

--Georgia. A progressive state!