Spencer Gifts Charged In Selling Sex Toys

[pstokely]

http://www.holisticwisdom.com/spencer-gifts-adult-toys.htm

The Tupelo Police Department in northeast Mississippi recently charged a Spencer Gifts clerk with the distribution of unlawful sexual devices. The American Family Association were behind the bust.

The state of Mississippi forbids a person to knowingly sell, advertise, publish, or exhibit "to any person any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs."

After sending an undercover agent into the mall store to purchase one of the sexual devices, local law enforcement officers found the clerk in violation of the state law.

[Worst Username Ever]

1. Un. Be. Lievable.

[renaissanceguy]

52. Maybe the Repugs should have an orgasm sometime.

It would make them happier for once. And they wouldn't have to bother other people about their own private business.

Do they not realize that their kids DO masturbate?! Oh, that's right...it's a sin, and you'll go blind if you do. Muh bad.

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.14743722
http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.14741250

[Lerkfish]

77. OH, they DO! when talking about torture in Abu Ghraib.

or denying gay marriage.
or viewing pictures of their BushChrist in a members only fascistjacket.

[CottonBear]

2. Doesn't Tupelo have bigger problems than this?

Is this even a problem? Is this Asscroft's doing?

On edit: It's better to live in GA than in Mississippi.

[Warpy]

16. I've been to Tupelo

and they have problems that civilized people would call huge.

However, harassing a small time store clerk is all they seem capable of doing. Don't want to annoy the rich men in the big houses by pushing for things like a liveable wage and health insurance.

[SemperEadem]

48. I wonder....

If they conducted a house to house search, they'd turn up so many devices that the state would sink into the delta... and most of them would be found in the homes of members of the Amercian Family Association.

[OneTwentyoNine]

56. Mississippi used to have the LOWEST per capita income in the USA

Wonder if that fun fact still holds true? People living in cardboard boxes are now safe from vibrators being sold in a Spencer's gift store!!

[Midlodemocrat]

78. And you know the old joke

....What is the one thing South Carolina is most grateful for?

Mississippi.

[Cocoa]

3. has anyone tried to exploit the loophole in that law?

the "three-dimensional" part?

[salvorhardin]

7. Well I doubt

a two dimensional device would be very effective and probably dangerous to boot (remember the women in Flatland?). A one dimensional device would be, umm, a pointless point.

However, a four dimensional sex aid could be very interesting.

[Cocoa]

9. makes you wonder...

the need for the 3-d clause at all.

Good point about 4-d, I bet the folks in MS didn't think of that...

[Momgonepostal]

15. I wonder if the 3-d clause is to disguish...

from printed porn? Otherwise would the law make things like Playboy, etc. illegal?

[ChairOne]

17. I think that's what they had in mind......

.... but those Mississippi geniuses seem to not really understand exactly what 3d, etc. actually mean...

[fob]

24. With the advent of the internets, it's been a while since I've seen a

nudey book, but I'm pretty sure that they were in all 3 dimensions as far as I recall. The pictures themselves may be flat images but the magazines can be rolled up into the most evil of 3-d shapes, the column!

Huzzah Tupelo for outlawing shapes!!

The urth am flat, the urth am flatt!!!

[ProfessorGAC]

75. There Are No Two Dimensional Objects Either

No matter how thin a piece of paper, it's still 3 dimensional. Two dimensional objects are only imaginary.

So, the law, written with the 3D verbiage, is just stupid, since there can't be any 1, 2, or 4 dimensional objects.
The Professor

[HFishbine]

14. I think if it vibrated

one could argue that it is in fact four dimensional.

[ChairOne]

18. I fail to see why.....

... since you would only experience a 3d projection of it... In fact, it hurts nothing to consider *actual* sex toys 4d - with time being the 4th dimension. Are they more exciting to you now?

[Spinzonner]

36. Any device that exists in the space-time continuum

is four-dimensional.

Looks like the law is inapplicable to existance and shuld be declared unenforceable.

Or, enforceable only Ex Post Facto which is, of course, forbidden by the Constitution. (Except for provisions of the Patriot Act which exempts itself from the COnsititution).

[MattBaggins]

61. Think that would hold up in court?

Claiming that vibrators are four dimensional?

[MattBaggins]

60. Sex Devices are four dimensional

unless you can get off instantaneously.

The fourth dimension is time depending on which model one subscribes too. I like time as the fourth and probability as the fifth, but I'm no string theorist so take that with a grain of salt.

[ChairOne]

8. How does one exploit this "loophole"?

AFAIK, everything in the actual physical world that humans can readily manipulate is three-dimensional. Even pieces of paper.

[fob]

27. You must make sure not to design or market it PRIMARILY for sexual

purposes. So that phallic-shaped vibrating machine is SUPPOSED to be used to stir your coffee, I don't know where YOU'RE putting it!

:evilgrin:

[LiberalFighter]

42. It is a novelty item or something that is kept on...

a coffee table to provide a discussion topic.

[SemperEadem]

49. or for that James Bond Martini

shaken, not stirred ;)

[LiberalFighter]

39. Best way to exploit the loophole...

is obtain the names of all useful customers that purchased such devices. When I say useful customers I mean those in political, religious and other positions of persuasion.

[Is It Fascism Yet]

47. where does all this sexual repression come from?

its a mystery to me.

[Egalitariat]

57. How about the "organ" part. Is the clitoris an "organ"?***

nm

[cally]

4. Charges the clerk???

Not the owner, distributor, or investors?? No let's send the underpaid clerks to jail. That'll stop them. :eyes:

[Kat45]

41. That's totally absurd!

A person working in a store (for minimum wage, most likely) is there to sell the items that the store sells. The clerk has nothing to do with what the products are. If I were that clerk, I would be fighting that bullshit.

[William Bloode]

5. Jeebus Christ!

Does not the Tupelo P.D. have better thngs to do than bust a small time clerk for selling a damn vibrator.

[pstokely]

6. even more

http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0032331.cfm

[JunkYardDogg]

10. It's Dildos Regulating Dildos

So, what else would be included in that category?
How about:
Real Human Bodies

[HamstersFromHell]

11. Obviously in Mississippi...

...the only place you can f*ck yourself legally is in Tunica's casinos.

[Boosterman]

79. Now be fair

Biloxi and the gulf coast casinos will take your money too. :)

[MnFats]

12. You'd think Bill O'Reilly would be all over this...literally.

since that dumbass apparently loves vibrators so much.

Hey Bill, who's looking out for the sexual adventurers in Ms.?

[against all enemies]

13. "Mississippi Buzzing", new movie about this unlawful distribution.

[fob]

29. Too funny! How do we get a copy of the arrest screenplay, I mean

paperwork?

[louis-t]

19. I would be very surprised if this item

turned out to be an actual dildo or even resembled a penis. Something is wrong with this story.

[KyndCulture]

20. Oferchrissakes! Spencer's sells the cheesiest stuff too!

Wow...those are some of the tackiest, most ridiculous sex toys (if you even wanna call em that).... that's just dumb!

[supernova]

21. They were afraid to go into a real sex shop

so the closest they could come was harrassing a Spencer gifts clerk. :eyes:

[durablend]

22. And they've been selling that stuff for HOW LONG?

They've had all that cheezy stuff back to the '80s as far as I remember...they're just NOW noticing it?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

66. Spencer's has always sold joke sex toys as gag gifts for as

long as I can remember. They also sell penis shaped pasta.

[Stryguy]

23. American Family Association.. Saving the world.......

One cheesy inflatible sheep sex toy at a time.

My question is.. Before inflated isn't an inflatible sheep sex toy 2 dimensional?

Perhaps the American Family Association should be questioning the parents 9 year old who bought the sex toy instigating this whole affair. Don't blame the parents who leave their 9 year old unsupervised long enough to purchase something they disapprove of.

[mtnester]

25. Excuse me, I have to go to Wildmans Leather and Lace to uh, uh

stock up on some new pajamas (yeah that's it) before they get shut down.

Pretty soon they will outlaw the sale of batteries to women becuse they could be used in a sex toy.

"You there, stop peeking in my windows!!!"

[LiberalFighter]

43. How do you know batteries won't be used as dildos?

[notadmblnd]

76. With GOD as my witness.....

they'll never get their hands on my removable shower head.:crazy:

[UdoKier]

26. Probably something like this: (Warning - risque pic)

[fob]

32. That's wouldn't get the clerk in trouble, it's NOT

"...designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs."

It's primarily designed as a toy car in the shape of a penis and who would put that anywhere near their genitals?

Don't answer that last question.

[LiberalFighter]

44. That's the Oscar Mayer weinie

[davidinalameda]

28. so there goes all those "back massagers"

how fucking silly!

are they going to ban shower heads as well

[MattBaggins]

64. Washing machines....

on long spin... with everything packed into one side...

[jmowreader]

30. Fuckin' Wildmon. Say no more.

[TolstoyAndy]

31. Does this count as terrorism now?

IIRC, they were using the Patriot Act to go after some sex clubs in maybe 2002, maybe OH or FL?

But this is ridiculous.

[atommom]

33. What a waste of time and money. The mother shouldn't have let

her children into the store alone in the first place, if she had penis issues. :eyes: It almost makes you wonder if the whole thing was a set-up from the beginning.

I've never heard of an anti-vibrator law like that. Anyone know whether other states have passed such laws?

[LizW]

37. Alabama has an anti-sex toy law, of course

And now they're going after other sex-related stuff like massage oil and crotchless panties (gasp!)

There was a news story the other night about a new store in my city that sells sexy lingerie and massage oil and the like. A city councilman was all indignant about how "inappropriate" it is and how the city didn't know what the store was going to sell when they granted the business license. The store owner said she doesn't sell anything you can't find at other stores in the city, and it's all legal. Plus, she doesn't allow anyone under 18 in the store.

The funny thing is, Victoria's Secret in the mall has big window displays of stuff very similar to the things this woman sells, and teenagers and children are in there all the time. JC Penney even has tables full of thong underwear. But the morality police don't go after the big chain stores that pay the high mall rents and have lawyers to fight the harrassment.

[SemperEadem]

51. oh, for gawd's sake

are they going to outlaw the sale of cooking oil and scissors purchased with underware, too? A few drops of perfume in some oil and you've got massage oil... gonna outlaw perfume sales, too?

[JunkYardDogg]

34. What About Ann Coulter Blow Up Dolls

Another store was selling these and they arrested the owner for selling a three dimensional device designed as useful primarily for the eradication of human genital organs.

[against all enemies]

45. The "Ann Coulter Doll" isn't inflatable. It should be flat and wrinkled,

when used, just like its' namesake.

[atommom]

72. But wouldn't the eradication of genitals make these people happy?

;)

[xultar]

35. OK Where am I gonna go get my goodies now? n/t

:evilgrin:

[Kindigger]

40. Do what I saw on a T shirt

"Sometimes When I'm Alone I Google Myself"

:P

[spanone]

38. Mr. Ashcrofts dream come true. It's only the beginning I'm afraid.

[Tactical Progressive]

46. I've said this before, and I'll say it again

Vibrating toys are a far, far greater threat to America than anybody seems willing to admit. About time somebody started addressing the problems of the day.

[frogfromthenorth2]

53. I agree! Time to create some buzz around that problem right away!

[retread]

50. What about that butt-plug they just voted for?? n/t

[sarcasmo]

54. Porn will be the rights next battle when abortion is banned again

If it were up to the Right their would be no Porn, no strip clubs and most of all no Vibrators. If we allow the right to trample our freedoms as they are doing now we will be just like the middle east minus all the dust. Imagine the Right coming into your home and taking away contraband just like the Germans did. O'reilly would be able to own a Vibrator, because of course it's OK to be a hypocrite.

[fortyfeetunder]

55. Will these be banned in MS too?

Zucchini, carrots, cucumbers, and hot dogs? (And they were thought to be just for eating...LOL...)

[disillusioned1]

67. You forgot bananas n/t

[gypsy11]

58. Better outlaw cucumbers

and zucchini too. I mean come on, really. What the hell is wrong with these people? I don't get it. :shrug:

[NurseLefty]

59. No offense, red- state DUers, but this is further evidence...

that you truly live in Dumbfuckistan. I know that TX has had (still does?) a law banning sex toys, as other Southern states. It's this stuff that leaves me scratching my head...
I'd heard something else that porn and tittie bars are rampant in the South. Rampant repression and perversion down there...
:wtf:

[BiggJawn]

69. You can buy anything you want in Indiana....

And SHOVE it anyplace you want.

I could suggest a coupla places.

I've read that the "Adult Film Industry" is rampant out in Blue Collie-for-nya. What's that say aboput THEIR "perversion"?

[atommom]

73. Drive across Kansas on I-70, and you'll be treated to huge

signs advertising porn stores, especially the new "porn superstore." An outraged red-stater put another billboard as close as possible to one of those, saying "Porn destroys families." I was very sad that it was raining when we passed through, so that I couldn't get a picture of it. The contrast was so telling.

[Boosterman]

80. No offense taken

After all if you are going to use the the term that SNL came up with to mock those who heckle the South...well I am not offended by the irony.

[AgadorSparticus]

62. SOS! MAYDAY, MAYDAY! ALERT LEVEL RED! DEFCON 1...

Homeland security is in dire straits. PEOPLE IN MISSISSIPPI MIGHT HAVE ORGASMS!!!

[SpiralHawk]

63. There is a fifth dimension

"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears, and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call ... THE TWILIGHT ZONE."

[LittleClarkie]

65. Geez they've been doing that for years

Why now?

Oh man, that's nuts.

[FM Arouet666]

68. Pathetic

Great police work there in Mississippi. Guess I will have to sell my two dimensional dildos to those sex craving junkies in that great red state.

[Bouncy Ball]

70. Everytime an organization has "family" in the name

it means they are hypocritical BASTARDS who don't get any sex at all so they have to bash in everyone else's head.

[kodi]

71. first mandingos, now dildos, will southern white women ever be satisfied?

.

[arwalden]

74. Was It One Of Those Penis-Cozies? You know...

the knitted/crocheted tubes with "ball-warmers" at the base. Kind of like a woolen condom. Hysterical looking... and I supppose that SOMEONE might find them to be sexually stimulating. :eyes:

[AllegroRondo]

81. My god - its like "Sex and the City"

they did an episode where the girls went to a spencers-like store shopping for 'massagers'

"Don't buy that one, it really is a back massager"
"Not if you mount it..."

[JunkYardDogg]

82. It wasn't a Dildo-It was a Latex sculpture of DICK Cheney

[MaraJade]

83. Just proves my point. . .

the right-wing religious Taliban in the US believes that sex for pleasure is simply WRONG. God forbid that any woman or any man seek
any type of stimulation that might lead to orgasm.

Sex is a DUTY, an onerous and distasteful one, that MARRIED HET people MUST PERFORM in order to carry out the divine mandate to 'be fruitful and multiply." Sex is not for comfort. Sex is not to be
romantic and pleasurable. Sex is not to be fulfilling in any way, especially for the woman. The man must have orgasm, of course, to
carry out his role, but any woman who desires orgasm is a WHORE.

Sex is a JOB, something to be done shamefully and regretfully, in order to "bring forth children." Any one who performs a sex act for any other reason isn't "healthy."

[JunkYardDogg]

84. It's about Control

After the most fundamental human behavior acts-
Sleeping, breathing, bodily waste eliminations, which are absolute necessities of human existence, Groups and or people seeking to dominate and control other people must manipulate the total behaviorial acts of their submissive populations. The more basic
human behavior which a Master "leader" can control, the more of the
submissives' thought and mind processes they can control.
Many Manipulative Based "groups" control the eating and drinking needs of their submissives.
BUT, the most powerful need controlled by an individual human mind is the sex drive. Thus if a manipulative "Group" can control the most basic pleasure producing behavior of a human being, than the "group" can control anything and everything which their subjects' minds do and think.
Hence the making of Sexual Pleasure can be made a negatively reinforced action, or in some cults, the women are programmed to give themselves to the male leader.

[thebaghwan]

85. Gee! If Delay could buy a butt plug; he wouldn't be talking out his ass!

n/t

[kittykitty]

86. Is everyone on this board so young they don't know it's Elvis's HOME TOWN?