Which state wants to ban sex toys?

[AllegroRondo]

I think it was Tenessee....

Anyway, one of the specifics of the ban is that it only applies to "3 dimensional" objects. Why? Because they know if they tried to ban pictures it would get blocked by the courts as banning free speech.

So, what would happen if you did own "3 dimensional" sex toys, but displayed them in a cabinet or on your coffee table? Now, its art. And art is protected free speech.

[Quantess]

1. sooo dumb.

How can you ban innocent objects? How is that even enforceable?
:eyes:

[redqueen]

14. Cops walk in and try to buy a sex toy.

If you sell them one, they arrest you.

Yes, this has happened.

[mongo]

18. Already banned in several states

SC, TX, KS, AL to name a few.

[Skip Intro]

25. I don't think so in SC

sex toys widely available in my neck of the woods here - er, um....so I'm told...

[mongo]

29. Just because there are stores - doesn't mean it's legal

It means it's tolerated -- for the most part.

Adult business sues to get sex toys back

SPARTANBURG -- An adult-oriented business raided last month is suing the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office to get its sex toys back.

Attorneys for Priscilla's say deputies violated the company's constitutional rights when they seized more than two dozen movies and 500 novelty items, mostly sex toys.

Sheriff Chuck Wright said Tuesday that last month's raid was legal and no items will be returned.

"They're not getting anything until the lawsuit's through and we go through the courts," Wright said. "They can demand all they want."

http://www.heraldonline.com/local/story/5529053p-4979840c.html

I'm in Ohio, and according to the law, every movie in my inventory is illegal to sell. I can be arrested and charge with a felony. Problem is, no one knows if the movie is actually obscene until a jury finds it as such.

The way the law is written, I could be arrested for selling a copy of Playboy magazine.

[Quantess]

26. seriously?

That's so ridiculous. How is this any of their business, anyway?!

A sex act can be made illegal, but I would not have thought it possible to make a sex toy illegal. That is a big assumption on their (meaning nosy people who can't mind their own business) part, to assume that the object will be used in that way. Some people give them away at parties for gag gifts, for a laugh.
The problem is these nosy people whose minds are swirling around naughty acts. They are the ones who can't stop thinking about "immoral acts". Maybe they pass these laws to keep themselves away from the sex toys, like they can't keep their hands off them, LOL.
:rofl:

I don't want their dirty fundie minds imagining what I might or might not be doing at home. That's an invasion of my privacy, and their snoopiness makes me feel violated. Have they no boundaries?

[mongo]

32. Actually, under Lawerence vs Texas

a consentual sex act done in private and not for monetary gain can't be made illegal anymore. But they can still go after "obscenity" which can be movies, magazines, etc, or even sex toys.

As it is, there are Obscenity laws on the books in 40(?) states. Most of these laws are written so broadly that you can be arrested for selling Playboy magazine. Adult stores exist in tolerant communities in these states, because it is not worth the hassle and bad press to prosecute them.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. LOL

art. hmmm.

Should I spray paint them gold or anything?

[Fridays Child]

16. Just make sure it's non-toxic paint.

And hot gluing sequins onto said objects is not a good idea. :evilgrin:

[FormerDittoHead]

3. These freetards will outlaw dildos but not COAT HANGERS!!!! N/T

[wordpix2]

8. Very witty and how true!

[Strawman]

4. if they ban dildos, all the Repugs will have to resign

[moggie]

13. You know what they say

If you outlaw dildos, only outlaws will have dildos. And you can have my butt-plug when you pry it from my cold, dead, unhygienic fingers.

Anyway, sex toys are not 3-dimensional: they have at least 4... and possibly more, depending on which flavour of string theory is currently in vogue. That's your defence right there.

[kiki]

24. Dildos don't kill people.

People who are dildos kill people.

[redqueen]

5. Texas has for a while.

Can't sell vibrators, but you can sell 'massagers'.

:roll:

Really meaningful law, there.

Idiots.

[AllegroRondo]

6. From "Sex and the City"

the girls are looking through Spencers...

"This one really is a back massager."

"Not if you mount it."

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. Or they have to be labeled as "novelty items."

Stupid law if ever there was one.

[moobu2]

7. Sex toys have been illegal here for years

I live in Alabama and I think sex toy's are illegal in Georgia as well. You can get up to a year in prison if convicted here. Unless the law was recently overturned, I dont think it was though.

[wordpix2]

9. how absurd - don't these people have anything better to do with their time

[redqueen]

15. They obsess over other people's sex lives as if there were nothing

in the world that could be more important.

Always interesting when one of these moralizers is caught molesting some underage person, paying hookers for sex, etc.

[intheflow]

10. You could make an argument for performance art when they're in use!

:rofl:

[MemphisTiger]

12. We'll have some very disappointed women and

men here in my home state. Keep in mind that we border more states than any other in the union. I predict alot of road trips if passed.

[michael_1166]

17. Ok, so handcuffs will be banned too?

(sex toys...)

Scarves, banned? Or, wait... cucumbers, banned? Carrots?
If "they" are serious about that, prepare for a severe vitamin shortage!

Seriously, seen here from Germany your country sometimes looks like a bad horror movie or like a realtime comedy show. Probably it's a realtime horror comedy show, dunno...

[Roland99]

19. It was aimed at items made specifically to stimulate the genitals.

[michael_1166]

21. Oh my...

... that's really quite close to banning penises in Tenessee.

[ladjf]

22. Yes. And women will be required to wear mittens at all times

except when cooking and cleaning.

[redqueen]

33. seen from *here* it's even more like a horror movie

:(

[Rockholm]

20. I thought it was Alabama.

[moobu2]

23. Alabama passed the law banning sales of dildos in 1998

Alabama's always in the forefront of these vitally important issues ya know

[TallahasseeGrannie]

27. I'd like to read that law. I need a good laugh.

[slampoet]

28. Too bad all the veterans who had their genitals blown off

won't be able to buy sex aids to save their marriages (which IS the legistimate use argued 30 years ago)

Why do fundies think God hates the troops?

[joeunderdog]

30. The one with the legislators with the small dicks. nt

[Katherine Brengle]

31. I believe it was Alabama, last year. n/t

[moobu2]

34. You could claim religious exception

“OOooOOHH GOD!! ooOOoooOOH GOD” "JESUS I'M COMMMING!!" etc..