Texan women can breathe … heavily … once more
Cats: the change it is a-comin', the solution is in your hands, women on top|Remember that list of states which prohibit (or interfere with) the sale/ownership of vibrators? It’s one shorter, as of last Tuesday, February 12.
In 1979, it became illegal to buy, sell, advertise, or even give or lend sex toys in Texas. (This last gives me some pause. Just which of your stash would you be willing to lend out? I’m a compassionate soul. If I knew someone so desperately needy that she was willing to take one of my toys, all of which are (obviously) used, I’d certainly give it to her … but I don’t think I’d be asking for its return. Thankssomuch.)
In its wisdom, the legislature determined that in order to ensure that the owners weren’t planning on sharing of their abundance, they were limited to no more than five.
This is not to say there aren’t sex shops in Texas. There are. But, until last Tuesday, they didn’t sell “dildos” and “vibrators”, they sold “educational models” and “personal massagers,” and you could be — and people were — arrested for dealing in “obscene” materials. How could a vibrator be obscene? I dunno, but some bunch of Texans (aka the legislature) decided that “stimulat[ing] one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship” was indeed obscene.
(Sudden random thought: “Unrelated to procreation?” Why did Texas not prohibit birth control, then? Could you be arrested for masturbating in your home, vibrator or not?)
Anyway. Last Tuesday saner heads prevailed and determined that the issue was not whether Texans had a constitutional right to genital stimulation. (Because if that was the issue, well, it wasn’t mentioned in the constitution, now was it, so it can’t be protected by the constitution, now can it???) Pfft. By that reasoning Texas should prohibit air conditioning, cars, and oil wells, too. And clothing. I doubt clothing was mentioned in there, either.
But that’s NOT the issue, boys and girls. (But mostly boys.) The issue is one of constitutional right “to engage in private intimate conduct in the home free from government intrusion.”
And, much to the dismay of repressive, filthy-minded lunatics everywhere, the verdict was that it was none of the government’s damned business what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes. Imagine that.
Hat tip: Obsidian Wings
