No sooner had I moaned that it’s unfair (wail) for us to be tarred with the same brush as XXX-pornographers when it comes running our business, that my attention is drawn to a 2004 court case in which the sex toy industry is mentioned in the same breath as “adult incest, prostitution, obscenity and the like.â€
It’s those whacky Alabamans that are at it. In upholding a 1998 Alabama law banning the sale of sex toys in the state, a federal appeals court ruled that the Constitution doesn’t enshrine a right to sexual privacy.
The American Civil Liberties Union argued that the Constitution included a right to sexual privacy that the ban on sex toy sales would violate.
And how did the court respond? By saying: “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.â€
Now, I’m no expert on US law, the constitution or Hayseed Dixie, but it strikes me that there is quite a leap between allowing a rabbit vibrator into your life and defiling human decency?
And the issue rages on, with courts in Georgia, Mississippi and Texas more recently upholding bans on sex toys.
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