Bill would make sale of sex toys illegal in South Carolina

AP ^ | 4/23/6 | Seanna Adcox

[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.

[robertpaulsen]

"a couple playing with toys in their bedroom is non of your damn business"

Did you think this law affects what goes on in the bedroom? Now, maybe you're too busy and can't be bothered with reading the article -- I understand -- but didn't you at least read the title of the article? Here, let me post it for you, again.

Bill would make sale of sex toys illegal in South Carolina.

Did you see that? SALE. The SALE of sex toys. Not the possession. Not the use. The SALE. Get it now? Don't you feel foolish?

The citizens of South Carolina appear to be just as offended by these stores marketing, advertising, displaying, and selling these sex toys as they are offended by the presence of crack houses or "ho's on the street". They consider such blatant selling to be obscene. They want it stopped. I suppose you think they have no right to do that.

I read nothing in the article about prohibiting couples from playing with toys in their bedroom. Perhaps you can point that out to me.

[RedStateRocker]

Local zoning ordinances are quite sufficient to deal with what business operate where, this is about busybodies and pandering to wannabe theocrats and closet pervs, who are the only people who would give a damn.

[Mikey]

"Standing sex leads to dancing."

Um, what if the dancing includes touching and that touch leads to a stimulating effect upon one or each of the dancers, would that be considered a "sex toy"?

[looscnnn]

Some States are taking away guns, paulsen. - And also you ignore that most States are in effect 'licensing' carrying guns. Only two are actually not infringing on our right to bear arms.

But as paulsen would put it, that is because that is what the majority of the citizens want. It wouldn't/couldn't be that some elected lackies would do this against the citizens' wishes. After all they voted them in, and so on.

[tpaine]

Don't expect any rational answer from paulsen.. His self touted debating 'ability' doesn't extend to actually discussing the constitutional facts of concealed carry 'laws'.