Aa777flyer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1876 times:
A 40 year old woman has been arrested in Texas for selling sex toys such as vibrator and dildos. A law in Texas bans all sex toys since they support the porn industry, and pornography is also illegal in Texas......
The woman is challenging the law in US Federal court as a violation of her constitutional rights. Texas says that her 1st amendment rights are not protected by things that are judged to be obscene.
VectorVictor From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1853 times:
In a general sense, there is nothing illegal about selling sex toys or selling/viewing pornographic magazines/videos in the state of Texas...otherwise there are violators all over Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, et. al.
MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13334 posts, RR: 64 Reply 3, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1847 times:
Who determines if something is obscene?
BTW, I´ve been to Dallas, TX two years ago for my A&P licence, and asa Europeans I found it funny that it was easier to buy a semiauto AK-47 there than a bottle of beer!
BTW, I´m pro gun, but also pro beer.
KAUSpilot From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 1955 posts, RR: 37 Reply 5, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1822 times:
Superfly, it is not illegal to sell or buy sex toys here. Maybe you have to have some kind of "license" to do it, like a liquor license, I really have no idea, but I know for a fact you can do it legally.
It's even more insane to say that pornography is illegal in Texas....there are entire stores dedicated to porn and sex toys in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, etc....
B757300 From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 4114 posts, RR: 25 Reply 6, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1810 times:
Probably a setup "test case" in order to challenge the law just like Lawrence v. Texas was.
As others have said, p0rn and such is perfectly legal in Texas if one wishes to partake in such vices. There are laws that regulate these vices but then again, what isn't regulated in this day and age?
AlekToronto From Canada, joined Nov 2003, 328 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1788 times:
HEE HAW!
The law is the law..selling sex toys is not a right.
Whether or not the law in the Long Horn State is right or wrong..it was illegal..if she didn't like it she should have started a petition to change the law or just go to a state where selling is legal.
It's not rocket science!
KROC From United States of America, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 76 Reply 9, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1784 times:
The reason Jcs17's mother was arrested for selling these sex toys was that she had 'tested' them all out before selling them, and failed to wash off all the 'residue' she left behind.
"Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again"
777fan From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 2402 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1779 times:
i guess they will all be resold down at the "used" dildo lot.......
VectorVictor From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1774 times:
Whether or not the law in the Long Horn State...
Its the Lone Star state. Referring to it as the Long Horn state is in fact criminal.
Jaysit From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1771 times:
"Probably a setup "test case" in order to challenge the law just like Lawrence v. Texas was."
Test for what? Think before you spew. Lawrence was about privacy; this case is about commerce.
"...but then again, what isn't regulated in this day and age?"
You should know that. Fighting words coming from supporters of a political party that fights tooth and claw not to regulate the contents of nutritional supplements, yet doesnt think twice to regulate how one can have sex.
B757300 From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 4114 posts, RR: 25 Reply 13, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1760 times:
LoneStarMike From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 3641 posts, RR: 38 Reply 14, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1759 times:
I think the official charge against her was possessing Weapons of Mass Seduction.
Edited to add: BTW, I read about this case in a USA Today article. It said adult stores in Texas are able to sell sex toys around the law by posting signs that say "sold only as novelties." Ms. Webb didn't do that and faces up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine if convicted. Sounds like nitpicking to me.
Tranceport From Canada, joined Jul 2003, 282 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1707 times:
I spent twenty-five years of my life in the good ole South before leaving it behind. It's been four years now and not a week goes by that I don't get some sort of reminder that makes me so glad I no longer live there.
Vafi88 From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 3116 posts, RR: 19 Reply 16, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1691 times:
Makes you wonder why we annexed it in the first place...
I'd like to elect a president that has a Higher IQ than a retarted ant.
ElectraBob From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 931 posts, RR: 4 Reply 17, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1686 times:
I saw something on a news program a few weeks ago, where women were having "sex toy" parties....a woman was invited to the party to sell her merchandise (sort of like a modern version of an old "Tupperware" party).
Is this the same woman....she is very, very attractive.
Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.....
MoPac From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 215 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (9 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1672 times:
A 40 year old woman has been arrested in Texas for selling sex toys such as vibrator and dildos.
See ladies, this is what happens when you don't get your Bull's Milk.
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