Woman files suit over sex toy law

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ATLANTA — First businesses, now customers are suing the city of Sandy Springs over an ordinance that requires people to have a prescription, or a medical or scientific reason, to buy a sexual device.
Melissa Davenport and her attorney, Gerry Weber, filed the suit because they want the government out of the business of regulating private lives.
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“(Some people) have this dirty mind about how people are going to use it. People really do need devices because they need it for health reasons and to have a healthy intimate life with their spouse,” Davenport said.
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Davenport suffers from multiple sclerosis.
“The nerve pathways interfered (with) going to my intimate areas, to the point where I had no feeling,” Davenport said.
She told Channel 2’s Rachel Stockman taht the sex toys saved her marriage and that’s why she filed the lawsuit.
The ordinance in question prohibits the selling of sexual devices unless the customers have a bona fide medical, scientific, educational, legislative, judicial or law enforcement purpose.
Experts construe that to mean if you have a doctor’s prescription, or some kind of proof the device is being used for one of those purposes.


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2. If women have radiation to their vaginal area

For uterine, cervical, endometrial, vaginal or other cancers,
they may need to use a 'vaginal dialator' at least 2-3x a week
or have sex that often. Something called vaginal stenosis can
set in and can get bad enough that regular pap/vault smears
can't be done by a on/gyn. While you can use the plain
graduated dialator the doc gives you, it would definitely add
some fun in the routine.

Luckily, I didn't have to have radiation. As my oncologist
said, it's pretty much comes down to 'use it, or lose it'.

[Major Nikon]

3. Sex toys were/are illegal all over the South

It's just another instance of Christianity trying to run people's lives and putting their turned up noses into the business of consenting adults.

[NutmegYankee]

5. +1

Hell, laws against cohabitation and fornication were once common. I could have been prosecuted under Virginia's Fornication statute for what is normal 20-something adult college student behavior in other states. Not that I gave a fuck about those fundie assholes or their laws.

[Squinch]

4. Waiting for the ordinance from Sandy Springs about putting people in the stocks if they disagree

with what the parson says.

[Spacemom]

6. what is so scary?

About the female orgasm?

I don't get it.

[davidpdx]

7. We should mail dildos to all the people who passed the law by registered mail

then turn them in when they sign for it. Guilty, guilty, guilty