Alabama wants to ban vibrators except to law enforcement, legis., jud.

http://www.pamspaulding.com/weblog/2005/02/alabama-again-supreme-court-rejects.html


Guess if you're in Alabama and need a vibe, you better do it mail order or over the internets. :) I'm still trying to figure out how the exemptions are defined. Is a strap-on ever used for law enforcement purposes? No, I don't want to know. Paging Roy Moore...

(AP):
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a constitutional challenge to an Alabama law that makes it a crime to sell sex toys. The high court refused to hear an appeal by a group of individuals who regularly use sexual devices and by two vendors who argued the case raised important issues about the scope of the constitutional right to sexual privacy.

The law prohibited the distribution of 'any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.' First-time violators can face a fine of up to $10,000 and as much as one year in jail.

The law, adopted in 1998, allowed the sale of ordinary vibrators and body massagers that are not designed or marketed primarily as sexual aids. It exempted sales of sexual devices 'for a bona fide medical, scientific, educational, legislative, judicial or law enforcement purpose.'

Georgia and Texas are the only other states that restrict the distribution of sexual devices, according to the court record in the case.
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Alabama needs to be saved from itself

Oh, that's right; it was all a lie...

they're going to orgasm people to talk? :shrug:

I can't stop laughing thinking about this line:
The high court refused to hear an appeal by a group of individuals who regularly use sexual devices

This country is scaring me.

"aw, c'mon - it'll be fun! Here, have a Coke...."

;-)

help us. Too easy.

purchasing one need a note from the doctor?

It's a neck massager.

I remember when this was proposed but jeebus, I didn't know it was passed!!!!

Would it be allowed then? Maybe they expect the parents to take care of that in Alabama.

That's no fun.

send free samples to the residents of Alabama, Georgia and Texas along with the US Supreme Court?

unless he can get a prescription for one.

:evilgrin:

...I can say that I fear there is no "saving" this place. It's too far gone.

First, legislation banning miscegenation is barely recalled (repealed by a 60/40 popular vote) a couple of years ago.

Then, a measure to repeal language endorsing segregation within the state constitution is defeated this past fall.

The gay marriage amendment is sailing through the state government and will pass public approval.

Now, this vibrator legislation is upheld.

And it looks like Roy "Ten Commandments" Moore is about to become our next governor.

Hate to say this, but maybe it's time for Alabama's few progressives to migrate to states where conservatives hold a slim margin of control, somewhere they can actually make a difference. Maybe.

After a while, certain types of nobility become little more than pointless masochism wrapped in a martyr complex.

We are trying to get the hell out of here. I'm tired of banging my head against the wall. I keep thinking/hoping things will change, but they don't. :(

I'm not kidding. It's like the a water pipe is not a bong loophole. It's insane.

...Now a Bush recess-installed federal judge. Pryor will come up for review again. And this time, Congress will approve him.