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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.
Let's make a deal. You can have your freedom to live next door to crack houses with prostitutes walking the streets and an OTB parlor nearby, and I have the freedom to live in a community without those things.
Fair enough? Or are you saying that I cannot have that freedom? Who's restricting who?
You can choose to live where you want, on your knees living at the government's beck and call. I do not wish for SC to turn out like that.
I'd rather deal with the gamblers, whores and crackheads than an intrusive government and its jackboot lickers - if I wanted that, I'd head north.
Well, if this has the support of the people, your problem is not with the government.
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.
Amen to what you wrote!
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"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."
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Think again lady. These 'Republicans' don't believe so.
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Headline news: Walmart relocates large shipment of neck massager's to South Carolina
Red light special, neck massagers on sale in the Pharmacy department.
Red light special: electric toothbrushes on sale in the pharmacy.
The Talibornagain up in arms again, what's next Burkas?
She just painted hers green and keeps it in the fridge.
What other Southern states ban sex toys?
I don't think you're correct about GA, if they do have a law it is not enforced at all, one drive down Cheshire Bridge will confirm that.
By the way, you're absolutely right--this is Our Federalism, as the Founders intended it.
You don't like the way South Carolina runs the show? There are 49 other states. Maybe if the folks on here don't like South Carolina, they can try Oregon--that state has one of the most protective constitutions for pornography and obscenity around. And there's no sales tax!
First they banned the Confederate flag. So I spent the whole weekend scraping and scraping to get that durned emblem removed from my vibrator.
You can't win. You just can't win....
Choking hazards?
Sex toys aren't banned in Georgia. They may be in other the states though.
The ones in Georgia, contrary to the fear that fundies like to spread, aren't located next to homes - they are in business districts.
On certain issue, like the degree of socialism within the government, that's ok. But on freedom issues, it's a different story.
Pretty sure Alabama does - it was in the news a year or so ago. I wasn't aware that any other states did as the Alabama story was quite a big deal.
It may have been that Alabama banned the possession of sex toys and not just the sale.
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