Posted on 04/23/2006 5:47:00 AM PDT by Crackingham
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.
Just exactly how is your life adversely affected by the existence of sex toys rp?
LOL!
Put the 'boots' to him Radio... We've got ourselves another real live unabashed communitarian, right here on FR.
"We are...."
That's right, we're free to do whatever the government lets us do.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- HL Mencken
Wrong, she probably never had one with him and then one day he came home and she was getting off on her sex toy and that pissed him off. He was replaced by a machine.
My system works brilliantly
That's the usual argument cited to support a fascist state.
You do make a good point, though. If the police power of a state can be stretched to claim that the sale of sex toys is a compelling state interest and enough of a threat to make sale of same a felony, then the police power is pretty unlimited and personal liberty doesn't exist except as specigically listed in a state constitution.
So who is the favorite to be elected Ayatollah of South Carolina this year?
Interesting that one finds a fair amount of support for the right to tyrany in the name of democracy on a site called FreeRepublic.
I think the original ideals of our country have been largely lost on both the Right and the Left. The only political parties that seem to support such things are both on the fringe and full of fringe types.
If I mention to my friends, regardless of whether they be "liberal" or "conservative," that the sole purpose of government is to protect liberty, since all other actions by it infringe that liberty," I get either an uncomprehending look or outright laughter.
The sentence of the day...
"The people who are riding us so hard..."
I wonder if they're going to start banning cucumbers and bananas? Don't these people have anything better to do?
How are these toys a threat to you?
A Law banning the listening of Al Franken while driving would violate the First Amendment.
Yes actually. Sometimes(especially in the mornings) my mind will do one thing and my typing fingers will literally do another lol.
That's probably going to be banned in South Carolina also.
Just the Bogota airport. You're not proposing that the U.S. adopt similar policies, are you?
I meant Columbia, SC.
The government needs to stay out of my bedroom.
Could get one hand chopped off for the initial violation, and the other hand if it happens again. This punishment will also stop any other illicit activities one can do with their hands, but we won't go into that.
MY life? Irrelevant.
It appears to affect the lives of South Carolina citizens, however, and they have a right to ban them. Or are you saying they don't have that right?
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