In Alabama, you can sell guns on any street corner but you can't sell sex toys.

[tbyg52]

That's right. Alabama is a vibrator-free state!

Well, technically you can go across state lines and buy sex toys in Georgia and Tennessee and carry them home. But the Alabama Legislature, in its infinite wisdom and in the spirit of protecting citizens from moral turpitude, a while back banned the sale of sex toys (or "marital aids" as some lawmakers coyly call them).

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court has shown a gleam of interest in this controversial state law, which has been challenged in Alabama courts by adult toy retailer Sherri Williams. She has been fighting the law for nearly 10 years.

More:
http://www.yoursdaily.com/different_views/alabama_sex_toy_law_no_vibrators_allowed

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Imagine the damage done if one of those things

went off in your hand, it's no wonder.

[tbyg52]

2. The mind boggles.....! nt

[tkmorris]

3. You could put an eye out with one of those things

Dangerous. Pointy.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Maybe They Will Outlaw All Cylindrical Objects

eom

[man4allcats]

5. Where's the humanity?

You can buy a gun to go fuck someone up, but you can't buy a sex toy to go fuck yourself.

This one's for you, Lenny.

[shadowknows69]

6. Ok, I need a break

this one just gave me a migraine. Later tonight kids I need my little yellow pill now.

[lapfog_1]

7. Yep... gotta protect the citizens from those drive-by dildoings! - n/t

[LiberalFighter]

8. Sell the sex toys as weapons

You can hit people with them. You can throw them at people.

Sell them as medical devices.

Sell them as kitchen gadgets. You can use them to stir the kool-aid.

[Buzz Clik]

17. "The Poison Penis"; ".22 caliber inflatable dolls"; "Smith and Wesson Oil" (erotic, of course)

[TahitiNut]

23. Well, to be fair, condoms are already labeled "Magnum"

However, try as I might, I could never find any labeled "medium" or "small."

Go figure. :silly:

[Buzz Clik]

28. They need to follow the Starbucks approach for size -- label them all as big:

From smallest to largest:
Husky
Large
Magnum
Destroyer

Or, keeping with the weapons theme (again, from smallest to largest)
Saturday Night Special
.38 Special
Magnum
Howitzer

[TahitiNut]

29. When I'm bored ...

... I've been known to walk into a pharmacy and stand in front of the condom rack and ask (somewhat loudly) "Are there any medium-sized condoms?" I've found it's a good way to detect the presence of the non-brain-dead. I try to avoid the depression that comes from seeing how many folks just don't get it. Somehow, the sight of a 6'2", 270# male confronting the myth of "large," "extra-large," and "Magnum" doesn't quite seep into their cortical matter.

:silly:

[Mend]

32. cure for boredom: wonder out loud when they will ever make one large enough

for you...

[Katherine Brengle]

9. This is an old story, isn't it?

It's still ridiculous either way.

[tbyg52]

11. It's in the news again because the Supreme Court might consider it. nt

[Katherine Brengle]

30. Ah. Good. Though I don't really expect rationality from them these days. nt

[SidDithers]

10. Apparently, a well regulated militia isn't supposed to have sex...nt

Sid

[iamahaingttta]

21. That's my favorite response...

...so far!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. I Thought The Goal Was To Reduce The Number Of Phallocentric Symbols...

SARCASM

[Mend]

13. they can't keep cucumbers stocked in the grocery stores....they fly right off

the shelves. Must be for "target" practice.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. And Cigars Especially Those That Come In Metal Tubes

[rucky]

27. The Cucumber lobby is very powerful in Alabama. n/t

[Ikonoklast]

15. Kinda gives a new meaning to the term

'Sixshooter'.

[porphyrian]

16. Isn't that law made of the same mentality that it's better to rape someone than masturbate?

Can we stop letting religious conservatives make laws now?

[prole_for_peace]

18. "toy" are also illegal in texas...

a 2006 video (featuring molly ivins) about it here... http://feministing.com/archives/005806.html

i attended a f.u.n. party last night, which is like a tupperware party but selling lubricants, oils and "massagers" instead. i told my friends that we were actually breaking the law in texas and they were amazed. at first they thought i was joking. i wish i was..

[pscot]

19. Just put that dildo down, ma'am

and no one will get hurt.

[kenny blankenship]

26. Dildon't, not dildo!

[NMMNG]

20. Such is life,

when the "violence is safer then sex" mentality rules. :-(

[ThomWV]

22. Alabamians should move to West Virginia - we can buy either and often both anywhere we want.

[man4allcats]

31. "They said West Virginy is the place you oughta be

so they loaded up the truck and they moved to

Charleston."

With apologies to The Beverly Hillbillies

Sorry. I could come up with a good three syllable phonetic city name that went with West Virginy in the same way that Californy went with Beverly - "Hills" that is. ;-)

[Retired AF Dem]

24. With the 178 dollar a year property tax

I'm paying on a three bedroom house sitting on two acres of land, I guess I can be bappy without the vibrater. :)

[kenny blankenship]

25. What if you marketed a long rubber device intended for cleaning heavy gauge shotguns that vibrated?

powered by some D cell batteries? Would that be legal in Talebama?

[unsavedtrash]

33. I'm in Tuscaloosa and there is a sex toy store here.

Been a while so I'm not sure about there being no vibrators now.