Court Leaves Ala. Sex Toy Ban Intact

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Source: AP

Court Leaves Ala. Sex Toy Ban Intact
By PHILLIP RAWLS – 7 hours ago

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge to Alabama's ban on the sale of sex toys, ending a nine-year legal battle and sending a warning to store owners to clean off their shelves.

An adult-store owner had asked the justices to throw out the law as an unconstitutional intrusion into the privacy of the bedroom. But the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, leaving intact a lower court ruling that upheld the law.

Sherri Williams, owner of Pleasures stores in Huntsville and Decatur, said she was disappointed, but plans to sue again on First Amendment free speech grounds.

"My motto has been they are going to have to pry this vibrator from my cold, dead hand. I refuse to give up," she said.


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And to think that the state actually appears to be serious about enforcing this nonsense.

[muntrv]

1. Fighting poverty is too hard. Banning dildos, easy.

:eyes:

[fujiyamasan]

23. Too bad we can't ban dildos from being in congress

or the SC!

[AnneD]

39. Dildos aren't the problem.....

we must ban batteries, let's get are priorities straight....

Say do you have to register as a sex offender now? Do we have to register our dildos? I have had a few dates where the sex was offensive-do we register them? Wait we weren't married-does that make me a sex offender? I can just see the patch now. Yellow triangle with a dildo in the center. :eyes:

Don't we have more serious matters at hand!

[TomInTib]

2. I say we start a DU drive to send vibrators and dildos to everybody...

in the Alabama state legislature and their National Representatives, as well.

Like when I sent O'Rielly the San Francisco phone book.

[notadmblnd]

4. Those things are expensive.

Will an old broken one do?

[TomInTib]

5. Sure. Most of those AL leges are pencil-dicks, anyway.

A broken vibe/dildo will still be much hotter than anything they have wrapped their hand around in years.

[Quantess]

29. LOL!

Larry Craig or Bob Allen would differ that!:rofl:

[Mz Pip]

3. What possible interest

does the government of Alabama have in this issue? Why do they even care? Don't the legislators in Alabama have anything better to do??

If it's a states rights issue why did the SCOTUS rule that medical marijuana was still a crime in CA even after the voters of this state approved it? We can have dildos, though.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[EVDebs]

7. "'Bama governor standing in front of the bedroom door" film at 11 !

But I've heard that the old Bama gov is locked up,

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1627427,00.html

because of Karl Rove and a possible frame up. All to suppress the dildo market !

[Mz Pip]

8. They banned dildos

So Karl Rove should be locked up since he's the biggest dildo around.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Ken Burch]

42. "Frustration Today...Frustration Tomorrow...FRUSTRATION FOREVER!"

n/t.

[mikelgb]

34. gotta do something to get 'em to fuck each other

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

53. No we don't

there are too many lunatics in Alabama now.

[Ken Burch]

6. So...does Alabama have neighborhood vibrator pushers?

Are there secret "strokeasyies" in the seedier parts of town(pun partially intended)?

Do the state troopers have huge warehouses full of confiscated inflatable party sheep dolls?

[OwnedByFerrets]

9. Stupid..........

motherfuckers.......and I live here.

[Name removed]

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[LaStrega]

11. WTF?!

"But the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, leaving intact a lower court ruling that upheld the law."

FUCKING ARGH!

So flippin' ridiculous it boggles the mind.



... I heart my vibrators ...

[Liberal Lassie]

12. Is ANYBODY, no matter who they are, what way they worship, which party they belong to....

EVER, EVER going to get it that you can't legislate behavior? Even death penalty states still have cold blooded killers. No legislation will ever stop any behavior of any kind as long as there are human beings with desires in their head and the will to carry it out. Legislating SAFE behavior is just stupid.

[LaStrega]

16. Here Here! Stupid stupid stupid. n/t

[Exultant Democracy]

25. I think the nutters do think it is dangerous.

[LaStrega]

47. no abortion no pill no touchy-touchy procreate dammit! procreate! (p.s. no evolution)

[WCGreen]

14. Justice Thomas was recused from this one...

[WCGreen]

13. We'll alway have Zucchinis....

Here's lookin' at you, kid...

We must remember this...
Alabama's just amiss, and a miss is on her own...
The fundamentalists do apply...
As freedom goes by...

[LaStrega]

17. HA! Yeah ... are they gonna ban zucchinis and other um ... similarly shaped vegetables?

And what about warm apple pie ... a'la the movie "American Pie?"

C'mon, you can't get much more American than apple pie. 'Cept mebbee hotdogs ...

Oh, wait.

Uh oh.

Best be fer bannin' them sex toys, too.

And hell, best be fer bannin' carrots etc.

Fuck it, ban beer bottles, 'spensive glass cigar containers (heh, don't ask) and um ... broom handles and toilet plunger handles (that's so the cops can't use 'em on perps) (oh, wait, it's okay for cops to do that ... just no one in the privacy of their own home)

I'm so tempted to post a photo of my vibrators (aka my bestest friends) but I'll restrain myself.


p.s. I found this highly amusing ( Note: not an intentional nod toward this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1951513 ), I couldn't remember the title of the afore mentioned movie, so I did a google search thusly: "apple pie"+fuck ... brought up some funny shit. Further I did a dictionary.com search for zucchini ... wanted to make sure I made no stupid "this is a vegetable" when in actuality it's a fucking fruit (no pun) (a'la the tomato ... who'd a thunk it? ... or as Quayle would spell it "tomatoe" ... him or W.) and that brought up some funny shit, too. Or should I say tooe?

k + r

Yay! Though my knickers are still in a damned bunch. I'm off to fix that. Lose the knickers and grab my vibrator. FUCK IT ... I'm grabbing all three. I'll find a orifice ... I'll put a couple in my bleedin' nares if I have to.

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[Ken Burch]

26. "They'll have to pry my zucchini out of my cold, dead...." uh, never mind...

Some bumperstickers you NEVER want to see.

[LaStrega]

33. ... uh ... my warm wet nevermind even

[pitohui]

15. good for ms williams

and boo to the supreme court, they probably figured they'd feel silly hearing this case so gave the brush off

pleasure IS important

[Name removed]

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[JPZenger]

19. Let's Raid the Underwear Drawers of the Judges' Wives

I think we need to have Alabama State Police raid the underwear drawers of the wives of the Alabama courts and legislators. Something tells me that buzzing sound is not an electric toothbrush.

[Roland99]

20. Yeah, cuz what consenting adults do in their own privacy is certainly concern for the gov't.

:eyes:

[mikeytherat]

21. Alabama Legislature: Slaves to Big Produce (especially the Cucumber Lobby)

:rofl:

mikey_the_rat

[Thothmes]

22. Isn't the 10th Amendment to the Constitution wonderful

[EVDebs]

24. Privacy rights ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy

and 4th amendment 'security' in effects

http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am4.html

Those vibrators are technically also massage implements since they're multi-use.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

27. Don't blame me; I voted for Harry Browne

in 1996. Best vote ever. Not 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Browne

[ProudDad]

32. Other than their opposition to the phony "drug war"

and to government peering into our bedrooms...

Why the HELL would you vote for a libertarian?


On edit: I'm sorry about his death though. ALS is tough -- no one should have to suffer through that kind of death.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

38. You've answered your own question.

.

[ProudDad]

40. You should check their entire platform

Other than those two items they are a disaster.

Their policy laughably known as 'economic' is positively EVIL and would completely undermine most of what little human progress we've accomplished as a society in the last 150 years.

They live in a paranoid cloud coo-coo land of Randian "individualism" that is as impractical as it is unrealizable.

Human beings are wired as social animals. It's in the freakin' DNA. The entire libertarian set of myths and fantasies fly in the face of this FACT.

The libertarian party IS a cognitive disconnect...


I will admit that for a lot of issues I would find a pragmatic "libertarian" a much better ally against the phony "war on drugs", the phony "war on terra (tm)" and Big Brother in our Bedrooms than ANY republican...

[Ken Burch]

28. If nothing else, this would make "Law and Order: Alabama Sex Toy Unit" a big hit.

'course, they'd have to run it on Showtime, but still...

[EVDebs]

45. If this doesn't make a "DUzy" award, Skinner has no sense of humor !! K&R

[noshenanigans]

30. is a ban on "sex toys" inherently sexist?

As a woman, most women I know own vibrators. I know there are the same kind of things for men, but are they honestly the core of the sales made with this kind of thing? I've been under the impression the ban doesn't cover pornographic movies but only the "physical representations". It just seems creepy to me that they wouldn't even hear it.

[Ken Burch]

41. No. It covers inflatable objects used by men too, I assume.

Plus various rings not worn on one's finger.
(Read TALES OF THE CITY by Armistead Maupin for further explanation of the second item.)

[ProudDad]

31. Really fucked up...

The court, not the sex toys.

Sex toys are fun and educational...

[TrogL]

35. OK, so what are men supposed to use for prostate massage?

[MnFats]

36. (in best George Wallace voice: "And ah say,

sexless today, sexless tomorrow, sexless forever."

how many DUers know what the hell i'm talking about?

[EVDebs]

46. Post 42 nt

[AngryAmish]

37. Banning dildos is stupid

Alas, it is constitutional, tho.

[originalpckelly]

43. Whoever banned them can go fuck themselves, oh wait, no dildos...

Hmmmmm.....

[Solly Mack]

44. So intimidated by a toy they had to ban'em

[MissMillie]

48. Why are ALA residents not totally peeved that their state

is spending any time, money, and man-power to defend this law?

[Javaman]

49. However, cucumber sales have skyrocketed! nt

[daleo]

50. Thank God

Alabama is still safe from dildoes.

[DuaneBidoux]

51. After all, if someone releases their frustration with a dildo, they may turn into a liberal.

[superconnected]

52. Why would an entire state ban sex toys?

Is masterbation illegal too?