<Dt> Age of consent laws </Dt> <P> Lawrence invalidated age of consent laws that differed based on sexual orientation . The day after the Lawrence decision, the Supreme Court ordered the State of Kansas to review its 1999 "Romeo and Juliet" law that reduces the punishment for a teenager under 18 years of age who has consensual sexual relations with a minor no more than four years their junior, but explicitly excludes same - sex conduct from the sentence reduction . In 2004, the Kansas Appeals Court upheld the law as is, but the Kansas Supreme Court unanimously reversed the lower court's ruling on October 21, 2005, in State v. Limon . </P> <Dl> <Dt> Consensual incest </Dt> </Dl> <P> In Muth v. Frank (2005) following Lawrence a man convicted of criminal behavior by having an incestuous relationship in Wisconsin appealed his ruling in an attempt to apply the logic of sexual privacy in Lawrence . The Seventh Circuit declined to extend the right of privacy stated in Lawrence to cases of consensual adult incest . The case was distinguished because parties were not similarly situated since there is in the latter case an enhanced possibility of genetic mutation of a possible offspring as suggested by geneticists who were witnesses at the trial . </P>

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