Court OKs Alabama Ban on Sale of Sex Toys

[Rose Siding]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a 1998 Alabama law banning the sale of sex toys in the state, ruling the Constitution doesn't include a right to sexual privacy.
...
U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith Jr. of Huntsville has twice ruled against the state law, deciding in 2002 that the sex toy ban violated the constitutional right to privacy. The state appealed both times and won.

The state law bans only the sale of sex toys, not their possession, the court said, and it doesn't regulate other items including condoms or virility drugs. "The Alabama statute proscribes a relatively narrow bandwidth of activity," U.S. Circuit Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr. wrote.

Circuit Judge Rosemary Barkett disagreed, saying the decision was based on the "erroneous foundation" that adults don't have a right to consensual sexual intimacy and that private acts can be made a crime in the name of promoting "public morality

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-sex-toys-ban,0,7449735.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[lapfog_1]

1. What about the

pursuit of happiness?

[Lakerstan]

28. FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! n/t

[RamboLiberal]

35. ROFL - Glad I didn't have a mouthful of coke when I read that

eom

[0007]

42. Hilarious!

[eaprez]

2. Gee, I'd better not move to Alabama!

[The Zanti Regent]

31. Are they going to outlaw cucumbers, too?

Wow, and these idiots thought they had a problem with marijuana???????

[joeunderdog]

50. Here come the cavitiy searches!

"Homeland Security, Crankshaft division, Ma'am. It's for your own safety. Now, if you don't sit up in the stirrups, I might have to spank you."

[Massacure]

3. *cough* Internet *cough*

The only thing I can see this doing is pissing off a lot of people.

[fishnfla]

5. **cough**its alabama **cattle prods** cough**

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Livestock?

Circuit Judge Rosemary Barkett disagreed, saying the decision was based on the "erroneous foundation" that adults don't have a right to consensual sexual intimacy and that private acts can be made a crime in the name of promoting "public morality<<

In a later relese "All breeding of cattle... horses... pigs... etc. shall be deemed a criminal act and punishable by placing the offending animals in the meat aisles at your local grocer."

Somebody call the sex police.... this bull is out of order.

[bluestateguy]

6. Ah, the red states

n/t

[AwakeAtLast]

7. Gonna be a lot of unhappy animals in Alabama

:evilgrin:

[nini]

14. LOL

:hi: good one

[General Zod]

15. How do men practice safe sex in Alabama?

They brand the sheep that kick!

[AwakeAtLast]

20. ROTFLMAO!!!!

So glad I could give you an arena for that one!

[truthseeker1]

8. ok, that's it....cancelling my plans to move to Alabama

heh, right!

[Zorra]

9. The men in Alabama must be lousy lovers.

Their wives and girlfriends are spending too much time with their "toys", and them good 'ol boys gunna put a stop to them uppity wimmen right quick.

[onehandle]

10. Just drive across the state line.

Dildos a plenty here in Georgia.

I understand they're on the 'net, too.

[tkmorris]

11. Not gonna touch that one <nt>

[Kinkistyle]

12. What constitutes a sex toy?

I can think of several common household items which could conceivably deliver sexual stimulation.

[southlandshari]

18. Shhhhhh

don't list them! Someone may be listening!

[0007]

43. Yeah, they may wanna pass a law to take the nozzles off of gas pumps.

[klook]

21. Yeah, like clothes washers

Not the old dead one on the porch, but when that GE goes into the spin cycle, HOO-WEE!

[Scout]

40. Water piks and shower massages eom

[KinkyDem]

44. The definition

of a sex toy is something that is manufactured and MARKETED with a primary use of stimulating the genitals.

The Japanese have a similar law, that's whay you see Hello Kitty back masagers and "vibropack" video games and music players for your X-Box and PS2.

One of the other problems I see with this is that "novelty" items are usually OK but high end silicone and pyrex insertables are not. Hmmmm ... I wonder which group of toys is safe to use? The cheap ones that the law allows or the 'spensive ones the law does not allow? Who is gonna belive a $60 dildo is a "Novelty"?

[mbperrin]

13. Does this mean that if an M-16 gives you a thrill

below, you can't buy it?

[Elbowroom]

16. what about

whip cream?

[sphincter]

17. Wow...

Alabama - The Taliban state of America.
What's next? Banning skirts that reveals kneecaps?

[montana_hazeleyes]

24. Kneecaps?

Probably ankles!

[KinkyDem]

45. didn't GA

already outlaw ass crack?

[progressivebydesign]

19. Use a dildo.. go to jail. Our justice system in action! N/T

[klook]

22. I like to be spanked with a copy of the Ten Commandments

Does that count?

[southlandshari]

23. LOLSHMBBFO

Oh dear, I seem to have...

...laughed out loud so hard my bible belt fell off!

[klook]

29. And now your pants are around your ankles!

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Whap! Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Whap! <etc.>

[Danieljay]

33. as long as you don't purchase your Bible in Alabama...

I think you'll be just fine.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. Better look to another state's farm market for your

cukes 'n zukes.

[leesa]

26. How Regressive!

[GainesT1958]

27. Ah, shoot...

They'll just drive down to Pensacola to buy 'em!:eyes:

B-)

[southlandshari]

30. I think this story is coming up on MSNBC now

If you can stomach Joe Scarborough (at least Ron Reagan is among the panelists tonight), they just alluded to "going to Alabama" before the last break.

And I swore I would stay away from this thread when things started getting kinky - but I ventured back JUST in the interest of sharing info with you guys!

[Danieljay]

32. self deleted

[celloise]

34. Oh, the joys of being an Alabamian

I guess I'll just have to get my sex toys off the Internet, like usual. I did enjoy that Ten Commandments spank-a-thon comment. Judge Roy Moore appreciated it as well, I'm sure. . . I wonder where he's going to get all his sex toys now, or maybe he'll just cancel his Viagra prescription.

[auburngrad82]

36. Does this mean the dildo occupying the WH can't go to AL?

What's a 12 year old AL girl say after sex?

Git off me Daddy, you're crushin' my cigarettes.

[Rockholm]

37. That's a good one!

[snippy]

38. The theology of a few restricting the freedom of all.

That is more obscene than selling a dildo.

[rawstory]

39. Yeah, this is ri-cock-ulous

These judges must be some real tight-asses.

[JayS]

41. Is it my imagination or is it mostly female judges that are...

...saying this ban is wrong and mostly male (macho?) judges that are for it?

[mainer]

46. No more cucumbers in grocery stores?

[BiggJawn]

47. Damn "Activist Judges"...n/t

[Endangered Specie]

48. What happened to "Thy rod and thy staff"?

[Endangered Specie]

49. Who let Alabama back into the Union?

[colonel odis]

51. i lived in alabama two years

i guess they figure they have enough dildoes running around the state capitol.