You can't play with your sex toys in Alabama

[Generic Other]

Court OKs Alabama Ban on Sale of Sex Toys

By JAY REEVES
.c The Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - 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.

In a 2-1 decision overturning a lower court, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the state has a right to police the sale of devices that can be sexually stimulating.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented merchants and users who sued to overturn the law, asked the appeals court to rule that the Constitution included a right to sexual privacy that the ban on sex toy sales would violate. The court declined, indicating such a decision could lead down other paths.

``If the people of Alabama in time decide that a prohibition on sex toys is misguided, or ineffective, or just plain silly, they can repeal the law and be finished with the matter,'' the court said.

``On the other hand, if we today craft a new fundamental right by which to invalidate the law, we would be bound to give that right full force and effect in all future cases including, for example, those involving adult incest, prostitution, obscenity, and the like.''

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[Radical Activist]

1. I knew there was a reason I never lived in Alabama

excuse me while i write a thank you letter to the ACLU for trying.

[givemebackmycountry]

2. SO

I guess my SEX SWING and my VELCRO wrist and ankle bands and my Doc Johnson nipple clamps, lifelike 10' Jeff Stryker pleasure tool, Ron Jeremy anal stimulation beads, Ann Coulter's amazin' strap on are all now illegal?

IS THIS AMERICA?

[Generic Other]

7. In Alabama that stuff is now good for hard time in more ways than one!

What do you call a sex toy criminal, anyway?

[iamjoy]

10. You Are Sick

if you find anything stimulating about Ron Jeremy.
He makes me want to
:puke:

[HEyHEY]

3. HOW THE FUCK can sexual privacy not be protected???

I laugh.... REpub types called Trudeau a commie and anti-freedom.

Alabama says sexual freedom doesn't exsist
Trudeau said "THe government has no place in the bedrooms of the nation"

WHo's free now fuckers.

[TrogL]

33. so they can prosecute homosexuality

[Generic Other]

4. I think the court got it right

"just plain silly..."

[name not needed]

5. Mail a dildo to every judge in the 11th circuit.

Used, unused, your choice. It would be a fitting tribute.

[dmr]

36. That idea reminded me of this:

Judge caught masturbating by court reporter


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0624041pump1.html


State: Bounce Oklahoma jurist for "pumping it up" on bench

JUNE 24--While seated on the bench, an Oklahoma judge used a male enhancement pump, shaved and oiled his nether region, and pleasured himself, state officials charged yesterday in a petition to remove the jurist. According to the below complaint filed by the Oklahoma Attorney General, Donald D. Thompson, 57, was caught in the act by a clerk, trial witnesses, and his longtime court reporter (these unsettling first-hand accounts will make you wonder what's going on under other black robes). Visitors to Thompson's Creek County courtroom reported hearing a "swooshing" sound coming from the bench, a noise the court reporter said "sounded like a blood pressure cuff being pumped up." Thompson, the complaint charges, even pumped himself up during an August 2003 murder trial. The AG's petition quotes Thompson (pictured above) as admitting that the pump was "under the bench" during the murder case (and at other times), but he denied using the item, which was supposedly a "gag gift from a friend." (9 pages)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1851110

[SarahB]

6. Hypocrisy

"Government, get out of our lives"*


*except for anything involving adult consensual sexuality or our reproductive organs. :eyes:

[Generic Other]

8. "the Constitution doesn't include a right to sexual privacy"

Does this mean they get to watch? I think I will call this the Alabama Peeping Tom Law.

[put out]

19. Gosh, I would bet (is this legal?)

that no person in Alabama would want to watch me having sexual privacy.

Does sexual privacy include baby wipes? Does sexual privacy include nail polish? Does it include bath salts? Does it include body lotion? Does it include people other than myself, or do I have to be alone to have sexual privacy? But that doesn't count, right? Alone or with another person? Or does it mean that if you are alone and thinking of another person, that is just the same as being with another person? And what if, in your imagination, you use bath salts?

I find this sort of reasoning confusing, and more than a little bit silly. I think these people want to be peeping.

So, all together now, do something naughty.

[Generic Other]

24. I went to one of those sex toy parties once

I bought Kama Sutra oil. Very naughty.

[CanuckAmok]

26. Nothing's worse than having a squeaky Kama Sutra!

[iamjoy]

9. OMG!

"The court declined, indicating such a decision could lead down other paths."

And what about the paths from this ruling that we have no right to sexual privacy? Does that mean the government can tell my husband and me when, how and how often we can enjoy marital relations? Oh yeah, fundies like this probably think I shouldn't enjoy it (or even have it since I'm unable to have children)

Added on edit
to be fair, the law only banned the sale. Does that mean if they buy it in Georgia they can bring it in to Alabama to use it?

:spank:

[Gothic Sponge]

11. Damn!

Now i'll never know what it's like to use a blow up doll in Alabama!

[Generic Other]

17. I f that doll is underage

that's a violation of the Mannequin Act. Crossing state lines with a sex aid is a punishable offense.

[DieboldMustDie]

12. Tell the authorities they're weapons and deserve 2nd amendment protection.

:crazy:

[Gothic Sponge]

13. Ha!

Bring a gun to Alabama that's shaped like a penis, and watch the lawmaker's heads explode.

[Joylaughter]

16. Body Piercing too

I read that some southern states forbid women to pierce their clitoris or Labia and that they can face jail time for this. Men can pierce what they please. Anyone know the truth on this matter? Prince Albert?

[Generic Other]

21. speaking of the law

<snip>
Attorney General Troy King said the court ``has done its duty'' in upholding the law.

<snip>

I can't stop laughing. I am trying.

[Generic Other]

14. If you must have sex in alabama you must do it in public

where decent people can watch and make sure you don't try any of that perverted stuff.

[DemBones DemBones]

15. Well, this opens up a whole new business possibility:

sex toy stands just this side of the Georgia/ Alabama state line.

Hey, THEY have the firecracker stands on their side.

And you know what we do when Alabamans throw firecrackers at us?

We light 'em and throw 'em back!

[Generic Other]

18. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

If it's shaped like a phallus them firecrackers are gonna get confiscated.

[JohnKleeb]

20. yes "firecrackers"

[Generic Other]

32. JohnKleeb you cover your ears lest the vices of Alabamans

corrupt you!

[DemBones DemBones]

23. Actually, I was thinking that people already in the

firecracker business in AL might expand into the sex toy business in GA, for the convenience of their customers, of course.

In fact, wonder what it would cost to buy a double-wide and park it right on the state line, sell cherry bombs out of one side and dildos out the other?

[Generic Other]

27. That violates product safety laws, Dem Bones

Or do they have any laws that actually protect consumers in Alabama?
I guess they could try and outlaw stupidity. It would be a start.

Actually, your business idea sounds commercially viable. You can become the Larry Flynt of Georgia. Until Alabama extradites you for the crime of aiding and abetting its citizens in the commission of multiple forms of perversion, that is.

[Maestro]

22. All I have to say is

[Generic Other]

28. those better not be battery operated grits

The state of Alabama plans to monitor the sale of batteries.

[CanuckAmok]

25. Would that apply to shower heads? Assuming those have ever been available.

Actually, I've never been to Alabama, but I'm sure there are some very hygeinic people there.

[Generic Other]

29. You are coming up with perversions the citizens of Alabama

could not in their wildest imaginations ever conceive. Shower heads? Are you a circus acrobat?

[Aftershock]

30. what the fuck????

There's no "right to sexual privacy" in the constitution? BULLSHIT THERE ISN'T!!!!!!

If I were from Alabama, I'd be pissed!!! It's none of the government's business if people use sex toys or not! If they want to go that route then, why not cut off people's hands? They're sex toys, aren't they???

THIS COUNTRY IS STARTING TO MAKE ME SICK!!!

[Generic Other]

31. Things you can't buy at a yard sale in Alabama anymore:

Saran Wrap

carrots or cukes

pantyhose

washing machines

foot massagers

hot tubs

trampolines

fuzzy animal costumes

french maid uniforms

rubber dresses

edible undies or soiled ones

any heels over 3 inches

whips and chains (unless registered to known hate groups and used exclusively for nonsexual gratification)

pierced tongues

vintage Barbie collections (that's for vinyl sniffers)

magazines with nude centerfolds

a Chippendale's calendar

any textbooks explaining the concept of evolution

Old National Geographics

[nofurylike]

34. well now

if they ain't into the ultimate sub/dom showdown!




peace!

[Generic Other]

35. Alabama's new state motto

Not playing with a full battery.

[nofurylike]

37. ha haha! post that at every state line there! n/t

[fujiyama]

38. This just in

Alabama court orders all people residing in Alabama to cut off their hands.

As the judge said, "hands can be used to pleasure one's self. As we know from the Bible, any sexual expression or pleasure, unless it is done to procreate, is forbidden."

[Generic Other]

39. It wasn't the hands that were the problem per se

It's the handcuffs. Cops can't use 'em anymore.

[Stockholm]

40. That is one amused judge!

``If the people of Alabama in time decide that a prohibition on sex toys is misguided, or ineffective, or just PLAIN SILLY, they can repeal the law and be finished with the matter,'' the court said.

[Generic Other]

41. Stockholm? Why just the mere mention of the city will get you arrested

in Alabama.

Stockholm is where sex toys were invented!

[Stockholm]

43. LOL! Sure was, maybe I´ll go there and become a dildodealer n/t

[nofurylike]

42. thank you for the great fun, Generic Other, and all!! g'night! n/t

[Generic Other]

44. kick for the morning crowd contemplating playing with sex toys in Ala.

Stop! Don't even think of it.