Alabama Not Such a Sweet Home For The Sex Toy Industry
Posted by: Jessica Wakeman
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2:20PM, Monday September 14th 2009
In a supreme stroke of moronic-ness, this Friday Alabama’s Supreme Court upheld a 1998 ban on selling sex toys on Friday. It’s still perfectly legal to go Down South on yourself in private, thank God. But Alabama’s highest court said the legislature is allowed to ban the sale of sex tales in public, meaning it’s a crime to sell someone a vibrator or a paddle! A sex shop in Hoover, AL, called Love Stuff challenged the ban on the grounds it violated a horny person’s right to sexual privacy, yet the heat-addled judicial brains in Alabama upheld the ban as matter of public morality. Sorry, but the only thing morally wrong with this is making the good folks of Alabama wait 3-5 business days for a vibe to come in the mail. [The Birmingham News]
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Princess_Diana
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 01:22 pm: [report]
How boring! Toys make sex more fun.
Pinky
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 01:26 pm: [report]
The farmers in Alabama best hide their sheeps and goats.
I Go To 11
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 01:27 pm: [report]
I knew I always got a bad vibe from the South…
impoddity
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 01:29 pm: [report]
It’s Alabama. I think a big condom retailer is located in in the state though….. No cherry on top of the sex cake but at least we can prevent the ‘necks form reproducing and spreading the hate.
I’m from Alabama. I have a right to criticize my kinfolk.
kad
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 01:40 pm: [report]
Alabama, a bastion of ‘live and let live’ it is not. Isn’t it funny how the more conservative and religious a culture is, the more they want to tell the rest of humanity how they must live? And yet at the same time they say the government shouldn’t intrude on peoples’ lives.
The irony, hypocrisy (or insert your favourite word here) just doesn’t come any stronger than that.
I’m all for standing beside my GF as thousands of toys are held up in front of the courthouse in a midnight vigil. Glowing, on high power, let them tremble as the sounds of vibrations meet and reach a crescendo. Let sexual freedom reign! Just not for those who don’t agree with it. Let them live in the 14th Century all they want, and in a world of self-hate. The rest of us can enjoy what God gave us: an ability to actually appreciate how good sex feels.
kad
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 01:46 pm: [report]
@impoddity, I’m aware that not everyone in Alabama is as backward thinking as those fat, old, white men that somehow get themselves elected to what become sinecures, unaccountable to anyone except each other.
I’m only critising them, not everyone in Alabama.
william.paul
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 01:54 pm: [report]
Alabama sate motto:
“We dare defend our rights?”
Apparently, not all of them.
effing hickster
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 02:00 pm: [report]
I had a lot of family from Birmingham and Childersburg. Not many of them were forward-thinking or mainstream, much less liberal.
impoddity
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 02:08 pm: [report]
@kad: Never said you were.
It really is amazing how people will deny themselves on of the Five Basic Needs: Air, Water, Food, Shelter, Sex. Though definitely not in that particular order. :D
tabby
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 02:32 pm: [report]
Clearly there were no women in on that decision who have ever had a good vibrator.
kad
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 02:43 pm: [report]
@impoddity
Just wanted to make sure you didn’t misunderstand me. All is good. Long live the sex. And the toys. Sometimes a guy needs a break too. Thank God my GF has her ‘Bob’. It gives me time to recuperate.
Maybe that was too much info. Sorry. As long as we have AA batteries in the house, peace can reign. Oops, did it again. LOL.
effing hickster
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 02:48 pm: [report]
Well, thankfully there’s still vegetables in Alabama. Corn cob, anyone?
effing hickster
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 02:49 pm: [report]
Oops. There are, not there is.
writergirl
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 02:55 pm: [report]
Actually, I don’t think you can even get one in the mail.
Years ago, a group I belonged to did a “dildo exchange”. (For the record, I DID NOT participate) And kind of like secret Santa, everyone sent someone else a *new* dildo.
The woman who was supposed to send something to the girl in Alabama couldn’t via the internet. She had ordered it off somewhere. She had to have it shipped to her house first, THEN send it.
It’s kind of like booze in PA—I can’t have it shipped into the state. So I can’t even join a wine of the month club if I wanted.
william.paul
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 02:57 pm: [report]
@effinghickster better corn cob than cotton bolls.
kad
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 02:57 pm: [report]
@effing hickster…..
Can take the hick out of the country, but can’t take the country out of the ‘hick’, eh?
I’m a Canuck, which provides hours of amusement to my lovely Texan as she parses my accent, my words…..All in good fun of course, and then ultimately I have to punish her with extra ‘detention’.
I’m still waiting for her to make me a pea-can pie, as opposed to a pecan pie.
effing hickster
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 03:21 pm: [report]
@kad: Ah well, growing up in Kansas gave me that flat nasal accent instead of the usual twang. Funny thing is, some people mistake me for being from England. I think it’s due to a deviated septum.
My dad used to have this great book titled: The Illustrated Texas Dictionary of the English Language by Jim Everhart. The photos of the comedian and his expressions were as funny as the definitions, which also included sentences for context.
_jsw_
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 03:30 pm: [report]
I don’t see the problem. Buy them on some other day of the week.
kad
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 04:14 pm: [report]
@ JSW .....But Friday is so close to the day of ‘rest’! Some people (Jews, 7th Day Adventists) actually think Friday (Saturday, I know) IS a Sabbath day (sundown to sundown).
For the rest of us, by the time you get to Sunday, screaming “Oh God!” really is almost like going to church. I’ve tried it. One really does feel closer to the creator. Given what I was trying to do, I don’t think I was much of a sinner.
@ Hickster….. I’d really like to know If I can get a copy of that Texan dictionary. Sometimes I am defenseless against the barrage of Texan truisms that seem insane BUT MAKE SENSE. If there is a Canadian-Texan dictionary, that would help too.
effing hickster
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 04:33 pm: [report]
@kad: I was trying to see if I could get a peek at some of the pages since it had been so long ago…Amazon shows a few used copies for less than a dollar.
Be warned. It’s a dictionary, not a phrasebook.
kad
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 05:06 pm: [report]
@hickster.
It’s ok. Christina will still get a kick out of me pretending to speak Texan. I may even get punished, but in a good way. Humour is important in any relationship. Thanks for the heads up on the $1 books. Pretty hard to beat that.
If I leave a ratty copy open, looking like I’ve been spending time reading it (post-it notes and all) beside some of the wildflowers she loves…...
Harle
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 02:06 am: [report]
I think the old men who decided that are just angry because their weewees don’t work any more… or they’re to fat to see them. I hate backwards thinking old men.
I live in Alabama and I can’t order toys online. I went to the Vibrating Touch site and at the very bottom it tells you that its not for sell in AL.
yesaguy
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 05:42 am: [report]
im with Harle on the old men comment, but like alot of people out thier you can see their body langue when you talk about a topic like sex or toys and they cant stand it. no offense to any one but i even bet half the people on this site have trouble just talking blunt face to face with people about this stuff, sex, and toys. the only way we can break this wall down is stop feeling like it is wrong. sex is a part of life and talking casualy about it with friends and even strangers A. you learn some new things B. it feels good to know every body has a sexy dirty mind just like you ( even if they are to scared to say so ) C. you can be nice an clean about it and no one can say anything but you can weed out the pricks that wont pass these laws.
thats just my take on it
kad
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 07:38 am: [report]
@yesaguy you speak truth.
If we get over the fear and hate we are taught about anything sexual….we can have much more fulfilling lives.
Discussing sex and exactly the kinds of things we like to do makes for a very satisfying sex life. Some things she doesn’t like, and that’s ok. Some things I don’t like. She asks me what I want from her all the time.
One minute we are completely engaged in pleasing-mode, and later we are talking about it, or about other things. Nothing means comfort more than being naked, without shame, with your partner. I like pleasing her.
fallonthecity
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 11:51 am: [report]
This is the most stupid law ever, but they get around it. I live in Huntsville, and there are three sex shops here that call themselves “novelty shops” or something. They’re still doing booming business, so I guess as long as they’re telling the state they’re selling gag gifts for bachelorette parties, they get to stay. I was not aware that you couldn’t get sex toys shipped to Alabama though.
I love Alabama (we have rockets), but sh*t like this makes me want to shake somebody.
majicksand
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 04:42 pm: [report]
Next thing you know they’ll pass a law requiring JESUS tattoos on everyone’s knuckles.