As a high school senior, Genarlow Wilson fielded recruitment calls from Columbia and Brown University. But at age 17, he found himself facing 10 years in prison for receiving oral sex at a party. Judges and the female sophomore agreed that he didn't initiate the encounter, but since Genarlow had just passed legal age, he could be persecuted under Georgia's archaic, flawed sex laws (it somehow would've only been a misdemeanor had they had full intercourse). Useful to remember: before 1998, oral sex between anyone in Georgia was grounds for 20 years behind bars. The legal loophole has since been closed, but not before other Americans (Wendy Whitaker, pictured right) have also been imprisoned and marked as a sex offender for getting frisky on Southern school grounds.