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.
Reluctantly, it seems.
I guess the folks in South Carolina have nothing better to do than mind other peoples' business...
Apparently freedom in a free country means that the country has the right to ban sex, if that is the will of the majority. Does the Bible say the sex toys are evil? Not that this is an issue of a state religion or anything.
What business is it of yours what other folks do if it doesn't affect you?
If the legislature is merely enacting the will of the people ... I guess I don't understand your comment. What you're calling "nanny-statism" I simply call self-rule.
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Suppose the eating of Barbecue were made a felony. Would that be just "self-rule"?
I truly had no idea how widespread the 'majority rule' BS had spread until I came to FR. It is scary.
I think the original ideals of our country have been largely lost on both the Right and the Left.
Yep, And until the 'two party' system stops working we won't see any change. - Taking turns on who gets to prohibit what just sends us further down the communitarian road.
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.
Every now & then we get a little reminder [like New Orleans] of what will happen to liberty in a real crisis. Our friends with their heads in the sand are due for a big shock about putting trust in government.
We don't want Yankees with dildos coming down here and corrupting our women.
ROFLMAO!
It's probably of the Devil, anyway. What a bunch of stupid bluenoses!
Are you saying that the citizens of South Carolina cannot be allowed to decide how they will live? I'd like to know why not.
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You are beyond belief! Your idea of allowing the citizens to decide is to tell them what they cannot do in their own bedroom. There are supposed to be limits on majority rule, otherwise we have the world's worst form of government, a pure democracy.
Carrots and Cumcumbers are next.
Now the honor of the South is at stake! We don't need any of your battery-assisted contrivances down here.
ROFLMAO.
(I have to get off this thread..........LOL).
Please; I don't need that visual!
I don't hold with any sort of dildo assists, wind up or battery. -- I can barely control my old manual model.
As you know, the constitution is not an exhaustive list of rights but rather puts limits on the powers of government.
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Obviously the problem is that some Freepers are incapable of understanding limits on the power of government. Here is a clue folks, there is nothing in the constitution about the right of South Carolinians to eat grits. Try assuming the power to outlaw grits and you will receive an education real quick.
I think we need to get together a big cylndrical vegetable donation drive to the poor women in South Carolina.
Oh wow! I guess this means no more trading them at Flea Markets???
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