Hide your Sex Toys in SC

[kromen]

Just finished catching the evening news in South Carolina and it seems an esteemed Senator is writing a bill to ban the purchase and use of sex toys. He even wants law enforcement to have the authority to confiscate "contraband" during an arrest.
I mean, who cares about poverty, war, and taxes when we can stop people from feeling good. I'll post an article with the facts soon unless one of you can beat me to it.

 

[Guest]

Damn.

They'd need a couple of cars to get all of mine.

 

[Guest]

OK - the proper responses should be:


"They can have my vibrator when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers."


"When sex toys are outlawed, only outlaws will have sex toys."


"What do the police do with them after they confiscate them? Will they have a buy-back program?"

 

[MissBri]

 

[cloudy]

Alabama, all over again.

I just hope it doesn't spread to North Carolina - that's where Adam & Eve is headquartered.

 

[impressive]

I dare 'em to try to take my shower massage.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

*stunned silence*

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Omg, feel threatened much?! Something tells me this senator is intimidated by an 8" dong or something.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I think it's nuts. Even more nuts than the cap on it that we have in Harris County, Texas. Probably an anti-lesbian thing. They forget that straight women masturbate too. And bi women, for that matter. And plenty of male-female couples use it in their sex. Somebody should send that Senator's wife a vibrator. He'd change his mind quick, when he saw how much better things got afterward. At least I'd like to think he did. He might be one of those, sex is for procreation types. In which case, he needs to watch an amateur porn with a couple having oral or anal. Then, MAYBE, he'd get the idea. But I might be giving him too much credit. Maybe he just hates women. And for anyone hates an entire sex (men or women), I have a laundry list of curses and negative prayers concerning the fidelity of their spouses. Naughty of me, perhaps, and crossing a line, perhaps, but that kind of hate just pisses me off.

I have to careful about my prayers though. The Gods tend to listen to me, after all.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Alabama, all over again.

I just hope it doesn't spread to North Carolina - that's where Adam & Eve is headquartered.

Really? Cool! I loved their Ass Angels movies.....

 

[Svenskaflicka]

From a cartoon strip:

A girl is reading the newspaper. "War, famine, rare animals going extinct, cancer, HIV, rape, pollution, oppression, drug abuse... Christian Youth Group reacts: MASTURBATION IS WRONG."

 

[zeb1094]

He just want them all for himself! He likes to feel his ass tingle!

What a fucktard!

 

[TxRad]

Hmmmm. New bootlegging oportunity... Ciggies out and toys in... a double profit....

 

[Pure]

the story

from the Independent Mail website

Bill would make sale of sex toys illegal in South Carolina

By SEANNA ADCOX
The Associated Press
April 21, 2006

COLUMBIA — Lucy’s Love Shop employee Wanda Gillespie said she was flabbergasted that South Carolina’s Legislature is considering outlawing sex toys.

But banning the sale of sex toys is actually quite common in some Southern states.

The South Carolina bill, proposed by Republican Rep. Ralph Davenport, would make it a felony to sell devices used primarily for sexual stimulation and allow law enforcement to seize sex toys from raided businesses.

"That would be the most terrible thing in the world," said Ms. Gillespie, an employee the Anderson shop. "That is just flabbergasting to me. We are supposed to be in a free country, and we’re supposed to be adults who can decide what want to do and don’t want to do in the privacy of our own homes."

Ms. Gillespie, 49, said she has worked in the store for nearly 20 years and has seen people from every walk of life, including "every Sunday churchgoers."

"I know of multiple marriages that sex toys have sold because some people need that. The people who are riding us (the adult novelty industry) so hard are probably at home buying it (sex toys and novelties) on the Internet. It’s ridiculous."
The measure would add sex toys to the state’s obscenity laws, which already prohibit the dissemination and advertisement of obscene materials.

People convicted under obscenity laws face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

South Carolina law borrows from a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling to define obscene as something "contemporary community standards" determine as "patently offensive" sexual conduct, which "lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value."

Sugar ‘N Spice manager Pat Irons says a proposal to outlaw the sale of sex toys in South Carolina is outrageous.

While Davenport’s proposal is probably aimed at shutting down X-rated adult bookstores, Ms. Irons said, it hurts customers of "couples-oriented" stores such as her West Columbia shop, which sells everything from lingerie to bridal shower novelties to lotions.

At Sugar ‘N Spice, sex toys are displayed in a separate room. Buyers include men and women who "need a little help" because surgery or medical problems are affecting their marriage, Ms. Irons said.

"We’ve been selling these sex toys for 27 years," she said Friday. "Even pastors shop in here. They send couples in here they counsel for marriage problems. It’s probably going to hit people like that harder than people realize."

A Townville sex shop owner questioned the proposal’s legality.

"I don’t think that would be fair," said John Terezakis, owner of Paradise! in Townville. "It’s depriving people of their freedom of choice. I don’t think the customers would appreciate it very much."

Rep. Davenport, who is from Spartanburg County, did not return several messages Friday to talk about his bill, which was introduced last month. No other legislator has signed on as a co-sponsor and its passage this year seems unlikely.

Recent police raids in Rep. Davenport’s county have targeted adult-oriented businesses.

The sheriff’s office there seized movies, sex toys, sexual-enhancement pills and surveillance tapes from two businesses in January.

One of the stores, Priscilla’s, sued the sheriff’s office, claiming the raid violated constitutional rights and asked for the return of the seized items. Sheriff Chuck Wright refused.

The case has not yet gone to trial, Maj. Dan Johnson said.

Maj. Johnson said he knew nothing of Rep. Davenport’s proposal and was unsure how it could help their investigations, which involve undercover detectives renting movies or buying magazines and prosecutors determining whether they’re obscene.

"We’re focused on the hard-core magazines, videos ... the hard-core porn," he said.

Other states that ban the sell of sex toys include Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, said Mark Lopez, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union.

Alabama’s law banning the sale of sex toys has been circulating through the courts since its passage in 1998. U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith Jr. twice ruled against the law, holding that it violated the constitutional right to privacy, but the state won both times on appeal.

In February 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, which is back in the lower courts.

"People think it’s distasteful. It makes for good campaign fodder and panders to the conservative side of people. That’s why we see the laws in the South," Mr. Lopez said.

The ACLU got involved in the case, he said, to "keep the government out of the bedroom."

Though the laws don’t punish people for owning sex toys, banning their sale is a backdoor attempt to discourage their use, Mr. Lopez said.

"People have a fundamental right to engage in lawful sexual practices in the privacy of their home," Mr. Lopez said. "It’s not like this stuff is available in Macy’s. Kids aren’t allowed in. You or I wouldn’t accidentally walk into one."

Anderson Independent-Mail reporter Samantha Epps contributed to this story.

 

[kendo1]

Tell me where SC is and I'll help her hide them.

 

[Guest]

Tell me where SC is and I'll help her hide them.

 

[Xelebes]

Sales in cucumbers for no apparent reason are on the rise.

 

[Guest]

Sales in cucumbers for no apparent reason are on the rise.

But not the lettuce.

Hmmmmm.

 

[rgraham666]

But watermelon sales are holding steady.

 

[Guest]

AH yes, pleasure should be against the law.
no, it doesn't take the edge off otherwise tense people... i agree with this 100%

 

[Xelebes]

Oh, and I lol'd at the mention of Spartanburg County.

 

[kromen]

I wonder when they will start the dildos for guns program?

 

[Boxlicker101]

This is a really stupid idea and probably unconstitutional. If it isn't, it should be. I wonder if that asshole has any knotholes in his house or back fence.

I also wonder how the sheriff in spartanburg Co. gets off confiscating stuff that isn't illegal.

 

[Guest]

This is a really stupid idea and probably unconstitutional. If it isn't, it should be. I wonder if that asshole has any knotholes in his house or back fence.

I also wonder how the sheriff in spartanburg Co. gets off confiscating stuff that isn't illegal.

*snicker*

 

[BlackShanglan]

I've lived in an area where the local prohibition was against selling rather than owning, with the number a person was allowed to own (I believe it was six) established as "sufficient to personal needs."

Naturally, what I would really like is a sound and detailed record of the testing process by which they determined the number that would be sufficient to personal needs. That, and a role on the committee that really ought to be formed to review that research and update it periodically.

Shanglan