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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz wants to ban masturbation, says sex-toys are like hiring a prostitute
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/13/1514818/-Call-of-the-Dildos-The-Ted-Cruz-StoryGetting attention today: The court case in which Republican now-presidential candidate Ted Cruz, then the Texas solicitor general, ferociously defended the state's law barring the sale of dildos.
The brief insisted that Texas in order to protect "public morals" had "police-power interests" in "discouraging prurient interests in sexual gratification, combating the commercial sale of sex, and protecting minors." There was a "government" interest, it maintained, in "discouraging...autonomous sex." The brief compared the use of sex toys with "hiring a willing prostitute or engaging in consensual bigamy," and it equated advertising these products with the commercial promotion of prostitution. In perhaps the most noticeable line of the brief, Cruz's office declared, "There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one's genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship."
democrank
(11,100 posts)"smaller government" folks.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)Human101948
(3,457 posts)Ohio Sovereign Citizen Loses Hands To Homemade Bomb
http://freakoutnation.com/2016/04/ohio-sovereign-citizen-loses-hands-to-homemade-bomb/
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)redwitch
(14,946 posts)I have thought so for a long time. Can we ban them? Please?
P.S. I hate this thread because it made me think about Ted Cruz and masturbation in the same thought. And now I am scarred for all time.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)There is just something profoundly yucky about the guy.
redwitch
(14,946 posts)Just awful.
sinkingfeeling
(51,470 posts)3catwoman3
(24,031 posts)...
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)3catwoman3
(24,031 posts)...that I don't get much chance to use - oleaginous.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Initech
(100,099 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)right now, with sex toys.
: PROJECTION :
:mindbleach:
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)all seemed smutty, which was not my intent. I give up.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Sometimes, seeming suggestive is worse than just saying it.
For example, despite my quirky quasi-Victorian personality, in the right circumstances, I can post "fuck" without blushing or reconsidering, but I deleted three or four unintentionally "dirty" replies.
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)I thought he'd already got the religious nutter vote sorted.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)This seems all about ramming a backdated ideology down people's throats.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)"It is better to spill your seed in the belly of a whore, than to spill it on the ground".
That justifies Ted in screwing around outside of his marriage. However, someone should challenge him to find that quote in the Bible. (Hint: it isn't there.)
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)He just seems to want to make the World a nastier place.
JHB
(37,161 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Anything more is playing with it.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)AxionExcel
(755 posts)I mean, really. What's the deal with that?
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)ebayfool
(3,411 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)There is literally no more important issue in the world today than ensuring that people go to jail for polishing their helmets.
sendero
(28,552 posts)Well he should know.
rjsquirrel
(4,762 posts)Because you just know he does. He's a human male.
Now imagine his fantasy life.
Sorry about your breakfast and your keyboard.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)Oh......fuck.....
DAMMIT!
kairos12
(12,869 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)What an idiot!
3catwoman3
(24,031 posts)...a lot of undecided voters.
Good luck with that, Ted.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)to make that comparison
csziggy
(34,137 posts)Lawrence explicitly overruled Bowers, holding that it had viewed the liberty interest too narrowly. The Court held that intimate consensual sexual conduct was part of the liberty protected by substantive due process under the 14th Amendment. Lawrence invalidated similar laws throughout the United States that criminalized sodomy between consenting adults acting in private, whatever the sex of the participants.[1]
The case attracted much public attention, and a large number of amici curiae ("friends of the court" briefs were filed. Its outcome was celebrated by gay rights advocates, who hoped that further legal advances might result as a consequence.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas#Decision
I hope that this case will aid in overturning all these other privacy invading laws and that they will set further precedents which will backfire on the Republican Puritans!
Initech
(100,099 posts)- They want to police bathrooms
- They want to make masturbation illegal
- Creepy old douchebags say that they would pose as trans so they could enter the women's bathroom
And yet they're the ones who commit the most sex crimes.
yuiyoshida
(41,836 posts)and if he does become President, he will fu%# us all to the max.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)... only outlaws will have to pry it out of my cold, dead hand.
And I unanimous in that.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)I wouldn't be at all surprised if that DC Madam had Cruz's name in her records, and probably not for vanilla sex.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Ok Ted Cruz is just plain creepy. The very fact he talks about this crap implies that he's struggling with a lot of deviant urges of his own.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)from someone like Gail Dines.
3catwoman3
(24,031 posts)...Gail Dines is? I am thinking maybe not.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)That could get interesting. He gives me the creeps.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)You buy sex toys to keep.
You rent time with prostitutes.
Unless Ted's experiences are just renting sex toys..............I just pictured the weirdest foul smelling knock off of Blockbuster ever.
Or
He is involved in human trafficking, in which case he did buy sex workers to keep.
In either case....go away Ted. Or rather, simply go away Ted.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Zira
(1,054 posts)he protests too much