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.
You should have learned by now that the thing also works on automatic.
Geez Louise. You and the poster with the "Can South Carolina ban boots?" ought to get together and form the "Inane Question Club".
Are they selling dildos out of their bedroom?
OMG--ROTFL!!
How have they defined sex toy?
Indeed. What if the people of South Carolina decided it was perfectly permissable to make owning an SUV illegal? According to Mr. Paulsen there, it would be within their rights.
Suppose the eating of Barbecue were made a felony."
Geez Louise. You and the poster with the "Can South Carolina ban boots?" ought to get together and form the "Inane Question Club".
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Obviously you must belong to the "Insane Stetement Club"!
It's not an inane question. If the state can outlaw something like owning sex toys, which affects no one and cases no problems, then they can outlaw anything. If you cannot see this, then you are blinded by your own parochial wants and desires.
Obviously you must belong to the "Insane Stetement Club"!
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By the way, a "stetement" is indistinguishable from a statement in all respects other than spelling.
Geez Louise. You and the poster with the "Can South Carolina ban boots?" ought to get together and form the "Inane Question Club".
Dildos, drugs, guns, boots, BBQ, -- they're all just articles of property, bobbie boy.
Geez Louise, you prohibitionists ought to get together and form the "Insane Comparison Club".
Then it should be all right should the good ladies of South Carolina rely on locally-produced models?
Sounds like a new campaign slogan has been born. You gonna be the poster boy, totin' all that gear?
I understand your dependence on these devices. If I lived up north, with those Yankee women, I guess I'd have to get me one of those blow-up dolls.
Yeah you do. Besides we import 'em from china. There are no domestic dildos anymore.
I live in Alabama. Of course, that is north of where you live, what with being down there in Florida with all them Yankees.
Only 7 posts in and already a like minded Freeper.....I was gonna read them all and ask if they were gonna throw a sex toy tax on cucumbers :-)
Let me go read the rest.....
Sounds like a new campaign slogan has been born. You gonna be the poster boy, totin' all that gear?
I rarely leave the house without it.
Some, of course, I've made into dual function objects, in order to save pocket space.
Yeah, we got all kinds of people in Florida. It's to be expected, when we're the 4th highest in population. And I suppose some of them are packing dildos. Whatcha gonna do?
Bump
There are no domestic dildos anymore.
Not true. -- I have a deluxe hand carved [ironwood] model available at only $99.95 post paid. [see my freepmail ad]
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