Mississippi outlaws sex toys
 

I found this today on MSNBC Abrams Report. And I'll bet these same legislators voted against the Clean Air and Water legislation, emmission standards, and school lunches. But thank God, Mississippians are now safe from runaway vibrators :rolleyes:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/

• March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET

Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dan Abrams)

There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week, another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will stand.

“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”

Well, I am glad to see that the local legislators are focusing on the most pressing issues of the day. I’ve long believed that a three-dimensional, possibly battery-operated device is far more menacing than a handgun. In Mississippi, people can buy guns at a gun show with no background check and certain weapons can be carried almost anywhere. Sure, guns and toys can bring joy and a sense of comfort to the user, but apparently the legislators concluded that a genital replica is a far greater threat to society.

This, from a state that levies only an 18-cent tax on cigarettes, 55 cents below the national average and where 62 percent of residents are overweight, making it the fattest state in the country. Yet still the public schools don’t make gym class compulsory. Mississippi’s laws would make you believe sex is the single greatest threat to public safety and well-being. After all, it’s illegal in Mississippi to have sex with someone you’re not married to or to live with someone other than your spouse.

Both can result in a $500 fine and six months in jail. And men are not permitted to be aroused in public. But at least good people are protected from the disfigurement that could result from an accidental electrical overload from a defective toy.

Georgia and Texas have passed similar bans and courts have repeatedly ruled the legislators have the power to do it. I guess the Second Amendment doesn’t say anything about the right to bear a stimulation device.

But the sex activists are not closing up shop in the South Pole just yet. They formed a lobbying group based in Florida called the National Alliance of Adult Trade Organizations or NAATO. Not, of course, to be confused with the other NATO, which is based in Brussels.

I don’t mean to pick on Mississippi. I love the state and the people, but I just don’t get why the legislators are fighting so hard for this law. We’re talking about adults here. It’s not that I really care about ensuring that these toys are ready accessible. Really. It’s just that you have to wonder, is one of these toys really a greater threat to the community than what real live people do to each other every day?

maybe they think that if their wives cant buy rubber dongs, they will be hornier, and therfore more likely to give the old codgers some stank on their hanglows.

I bet Arsen is behind this.

One more reason to avoid Mississippi.

timing is everything.

What's an Arsen? (...rhymes with an obsolete Russian measure of length [71.12cm]...)

Run recall campaigns against the legislators who proposed and cosponsored this. I don't pay for legislative masturbation on State time, I pay for properly looking out for state interest. This ain't it.

Arsen is Mr. StacyV, I assume, anyway.

Next they'll be cutting off hands!

Well hmmm what does that leave??

• Nipple clamps.... check
• Butt plugs.... check
• Handcuffs.... check
• Whips, paddles, etc.... check
• Ball gags.... check

Maybe they're not prudish. Maybe they're just kinky.

I'll let somebody out parse out alternatives to the "human" bit.

I think that someone needs to stand up and congratulate Mississippi for having the guts to take action to prevent any unnecessary, non-reproductive sexual activity. Surely it must now be a most favored state in the eyes of the Almighty, in whose sight sex is naughty.

...but feels soooooo good!

Aren't they still behind Texas as most favored?:confused:

Yeah

Why is it that the states with the least restrictive gun laws seem to have the most restrictive sex laws?

Libertarian? Hah!

satisfy their customers? heh that goes on too many levels..

religion has people all screwed up, they were also working on a law in Kansas to try to ban sex shops.. and ' home adult entertainment' (no mention of strip clubs) I hadn't checked back since I moved to the land of repentant baptists.. do what ever you want, just say sorry on sunday.

:eyebrow: Not in any of the major cities in Texas... In some rural counties they must classify them specifically as "marital aids," but you don't have to prove you're married to buy them or anything.

Libertarian, not libertine, rich. ;)

Actually, Libertarians protect the rights of libertines and Jesus freaks alike by simply taking the position that what you do in your home is your own business.

The law does bring up some interesting questions. Is there an exclusion for penile implants? If not, does the law violate the American with Disabilities act?

What about transport across the state? Let's say I have a handgun registered in PA and am travelling across Mississippi. Am I supposed to keep the gun and the sex toy locked in the trunk to prove that I don't intend to use either one?:D

Of course, at a guess, I'd say that it being Mississippi, I probably have the right to drive with one hand on the steering wheel and another on an Uzi.:right:

As long as you don't drive with one hand on your peepee, you're pretty much okay with whatever.

There is a joke in there somewhere. I'm certain of it.

This is my rifle, this is my gun.....:redface:

That is perfect tagline material.

And this is for when I just want to have fun.:D

Well, it all balances out in the end, doesn't it? Mississippi's laws encourage people to bang each other, not mechanical devises. The resulting excess population can then be disposed of with a bang.

Quite logical, actually.

Look at it this way. God hates sex. People are (gasp!) produced by the act of sex. Therefore, God must hate people, as well. God fearing Mississipians are merely carrying out God's will with their liberal gun policy.

Banging is bad, I mean GOOD!

A cartoon, but true.

Will they be banning cucumbers next?

Maybe they'll just keep them behind the counter so you have to ask for them :blush:

Only the battery operated ones.

I think I have to go take a cold shower now! :lol:

Good Historical Perspective in Today's Inquirer
 

Good vibes: A hysterical perspective on sex toys

Ok, steam powered vibrators? I'm not sure I believe that. I'd sure like to see a picture of one in the Doodads thread. Maybe Bruce or Buster can find one amongst the antiques in the garage/shed/barn.;)

Never mind, I found this link with a history of sex toys and a picture of a steam powered vibrator.:eek:

Anyway, I guess when sex toys become outlawed agains, doctors will have to step back in.

Vermont kind of busts that paradigm. They've got the right kind of gun laws -- no-permit concealed carry, for instance.

...Just prudently laying them in in case of eventual need.:cool:

is there a "close out" sale?

My shop vac is all used up.

Well, I am crossing Mississippi off my list of potential places to live.

reee-frickin-diculous.

just more polititians afraid of their own sexuality.

this is supposed to be a free country.......

Selfish legislators; their wifes all were overly enjoying the toys while Bubba blowhard was out legislating and voila they get banned.... but I bet Buubba still is not going to get laid well.

I wonder how much this cost the taxpayers of ol' Miss?

I wonder if any of you have been to MS. I live there and you don't know the half of what goes on. I can guess that you've never taken a look at stupid laws in your own state. Belive me the folks in office always pander to the votes. Which in MS. is the holy rollers and the black vote. Come spend a few days with me and see.

How about you come up here instead Buster? Plastic Forks is coming up and you can be the guest cook. You can take over my Red Devil grill.

Thanks, but I guess I'll have to pass again this year.

Mississippi Mentality
 

I spent part of my youth in Hattiesburg(Hattiesgulch as we affectionately called it) MS and my parents still live there. They're sorry they can't vote Bush in again and are hoping for some divine intervention to keep him in longer (oh I dunno...like more war, I suppose). That tells you everything you need to know right there...and why I got the hell out!:lol:

When is forks exactly?

Scboxer, your folks sound like nice people -- a little country, maybe, but nice.

As for the Bush bashers, they like to tell each other that they are the wisest, most intelligent people around -- but man oh man, you couldn't prove it by me. Smart people set their priorities better than any Bush basher I've met.

I'll give you one thing - you phrased that sentence correctly.

Oh yeah, they are very nice and I love them dearly...I just don't want my fate riding on their votes...:)

Which simply proves that you haven't met me.:p

I think Saturday June 24th.

My folks were nice people too, but I couldn't convince then the war in Vietnam was wrong until 1995. I feel your pain. ;)

Two Italians

A bus stops and two Italian men get on. They sit down and engage in an animated conversation. The lady sitting behind them ignores them at first; but, her attention is galvanized when she hears one of the men say the following:

"Emma come first. Den I come. Den two asses come together. I come once-a-more. Two asses, they come together again. I come again and pee twice. Then I come one lasta time."

"You foul-mouthed sex obsessed swine," retorted the lady, indignantly. "In this country....we don't speak aloud in public places about our sex lives........."

"Hey, coola down lady," said the man. "Who talkin' abouta sexa? I'm a justa tellin' my frienda how ta spella 'Mississippi'."

I BET YOU READ THIS AGAIN!!! :lol: