Mississippi outlaws sex toys (Dangerous Didoes)

[DainBramaged]

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.

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

This from a state that allows riverboat gambling, sterilization of "certain defectives" (SEC. 41-45-1. Sexual sterilization of certain defectives authorized), and still maintains county work farms for prisoners.

What a backwards ass place to live.

[bluestateguy]

1. Not all laws are enforced

Hopefully this one will be in the same category, and passing was just for show.

[northzax]

9. oh, if I was a DA

i'd enforce it. To the letter. Make the legislators realize how stupid they are.

[Der Blaue Engel]

17. Show of what?

Archaic laws that no one bothers to enforce but remain languishing on the books are one thing, but a newly-passed law has a definite purpose. They intend to prosecute people for this, no doubt about it.

[DainBramaged]

18. Targeting the intelligentsia, bet ya a nickle or your cousin

[DBoon]

23. Not all laws are enforced consistently

Some DA will enforce this against a political opponent or some other agent of social disorder

[TahitiNut]

36. When the State can choose when and where to enforce a law ...

... and against whom to enforce it, we have the very epitome of a Police State. All we need do is look at Jim Crow to comprehend this. :shrug:

[walldude]

45. Well, they may not come to your house

but you can bet they will be attacking businesses that sell "toys". Order online, until they make that illegal as well.

[JPZenger]

2. Making Criminals Out of Large Part of their Population?

So this state is making criminals out of large parts of their population?

I would imagine most sales are mail order. I am curious whether the mail order companies will comply with this law.

[DainBramaged]

5. In their zeal to enforce narcotics laws

I will bet the dunbass redneck police and sheriff's departments will arrest people now for having didoes just to enhance their revenue base.

Dumbfuck corncobs.

[megatherium]

3. self-delete. nt

[tularetom]

4. When dildos are outlawed

only politicians will be dildos.

[DainBramaged]

8. They'll have to pry my dildo from my cold dead....

never mind.:rofl:

[seeminer21]

21. HA HA HA

Awesome :)

[AllegroRondo]

26. Are you aware of the Penal Code in this state?

[intheflow]

43. What an insult to dildos!

:P

[reichstag911]

6. "In related news,...

...western Alabama tourism officials say they're experiencing a sharp upturn in Mississippi housewives visiting their area on solitary weekend getaways."

[CottonBear]

49. Alabama also has a sex toy ban but guns are OK.

Thursday, July 29, 2004
Sex toys still banned in Alabama, guns okay

A decision issued yesterday by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says Alabama doesn't have to lift its silly, arcane 1998 law banning the sale of sex toys. The Constitution does not include a right to sexual privacy, the panel of three judges ruled. Many Americans would disagree, including this one. To paraphrase Andrew Orlowski's brilliant quip about the INDUCE Act, under this law one could stroll down Alabama's southern streets selling semiautomatic rifles and dildos, and be arrested for the dildos.
"In this case, the American Civil Liberties Union ('ACLU') invites us to add a new right to the current catalogue of fundamental rights under the Constitution: a right to sexual privacy. It further asks us to declare Alabama's statute prohibiting the sale of 'sex toys' to be an impermissible burden on this right. Alabama responds that the statute exercises a time-honored use of state police power -- restricting the sale of sex. We are compelled to agree with Alabama and must decline the ACLU's invitation. (...)
"Alabama's Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act prohibits, among other things, the commercial distribution of 'any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for any thing of pecuniary value.'"

more...

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/29/sex_toys_still_banne.html

[TrogL]

55. Hey, where can you get one of those?

The dildo, not the firearm.

My girlfriend would love it.

[CottonBear]

56. I have no idea. It looks like a Hello Kitty dildo.

You should Google that and see if you can find one online! ;)
I'm sure there's at least a few online stores that sell dildos and vibrators!

[DainBramaged]

57. I have a feeling it's more like a hello little you know what dildo

and Miss Kitty there is the guardian or whatever I don't have a clue but it is a funny tag line.

[CottonBear]

60. LOL!

:spank:

[northzax]

7. well it's about time, I tell you

last time I was down in Mississippi, there were people using artificial stimulators on themselves all over the place, church, school, in the park, everywhere, I tell you. And as I always say, if a woman can't be satisfied with the man that God picked for her, then she wasn't supposed to be satisfied. Take what God gives you. (well, except for viagra, God sent that to us, he wants us to be happy, after all) Is anyone suprised by the damage from Katrina? if people hadn't been sitting around diddling themselves with 'marital aids' They would have seen the warning signs and God wouldn't have sent the 'cane to punish them. duh.

[porphyrian]

10. Too bad they didn't outlaw dicks.

That would've removed enough Mississippians from office to prevent stupid bullshit legislation like this from wasting everyone's time.

[Dolomite]

11. three-dimensional device? would "pocket pals" be

considered a "fourth-dimensional device"?

And what about Casaba melons? Gonna make those illegal too?

[DainBramaged]

16. OMG Mississippi, come for the melons, stay for the didoes

:rofl:

Lawmakers included.

[DanCa]

12. On the plus side would this reduce freeper cousin marriage?

Freeper motto "Nothin spells lovin like using a sex toy on your cousin"

[riona]

13. i wonder

why our legislators are so preoccupied with people's sex lives? it doesn't seem normal

[derby378]

14. "Didoes?"

I thought a Dido was a female vocalist, not a - well, uh - prosthetic.

[Hissyspit]

15. Dido is dangerous? And there is more than one of her?!

:7

NOTE: If the subject head gets corrected, this post will no longer make any sense.

[peekaloo]

31. LOL.....may cause drowsiness when operating a heavy dildo.

[shain from kane]

19. Isn't there a crack problem in Mississippi?

Shouldn't the legislators be working to solve it?

Sorry. Nevermind.

[BOSSHOG]

27. Meth Labs all over the state

out in the woods, with bubba providing for his neighbors. Also, DNA and Drug Testing Signs on every other electric line pole. And you can't swing a cat in the state without hitting a baptist church filled on sunday mornings by meth lab owners and single parent teenagers with their babies on their hips. Praise the lord.

[DainBramaged]

33. HAHAHAHAHAHAH

And you can't swing a cat in the state without hitting a baptist church filled on sunday mornings by meth lab owners and single parent teenagers with their babies on their hips.

Ain't that the Gospel truth! Dildoes dangerous, meth labs not so dangerous.

I never met anyone who died from dildo abuse.

:wtf:

[intheflow]

44. ...

Those freaking drug 7 DNA testing signs are everywhere. :wtf:

I can't believe citizens in Mississippi actually pay their lawmakers to invent privacy intrusions like dildo outlawing and abortions. BOSSHOG, I feel for ya, man!

[BOSSHOG]

46. We're good

but I do appreciate the sentiment. We moved here from Louisiana 7 years ago because real estate was dirt cheap and we will be making a killing on our one little acre here. On the upside we are 50 miles from the french quarter which is back up and running so my social bucks go out of state. About twice a year we go down and spend the weekend, its like zooming to another planet. Not only are dildoes available, on just about any given evening you can view some copulating action on the balconies over looking bourbon street. And, oh by the way, God through Katrina wiped out a whole bunch of churches on the gulfcoast but the strip clubs on Bourbon Street were up and running two weeks after the storm passed and raked in the big bucks from construction workers and National Guardsmen, praise the lord. Wife and I happily married and rich by south Mississippi standards, no kids, just keeping an eye on the population and intensifying my desire to never, ever voting for a republican or a conservative for anything.

[DainBramaged]

40. I think they are addressing the crack problem

but it's the wrong crack they are addressing.

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[TalkingDog]

52. Bwahahahahahahaha...ha! Good one! You get a thumbs up....

but I'm not suggesting where....

[Taxloss]

20. Buy stock in the Mississippi Cucumber Combine!

Buy it now! Buy, Buy, Buy!

(Hedge investments: Kleenex, cold showers.)

[taught_me_patience]

53. They'll ban cucumbers next! eom

[DainBramaged]

54. Ma, hide the cukes, the Sheriff is coming or

Ma, the Sheriff's coming, where are the cukes?

You say cucumber, I say dildo, the Sheriff still needs donuts and coffee.:donut:

[C_U_L8R]

22. So what's everyone supposed to do with their dildos ??

send em in to the legislature ??

might be an awfully funny mail-in campaign

[AllegroRondo]

25. Will they have 'buy-back' campaigns, like they do for guns?

that would be fun to watch.

[BOSSHOG]

34. Put the dildo down and back away from the door!

Do I dare start a booming underground market for pulsating, throbbing dildoes? I'm only 50 miles from New Orleans, the supply there is limitless. Pssst, hey miss, do you need one of these. Cash only. I'm just so fucking proud of my state legislature. Also this year they passed a law which would keep hunting accidents from being made a part of the public record.

[DainBramaged]

37. And this is what Red-staters are so proud of?

You can marry your sister but you can't own a sex toy?

[BOSSHOG]

38. Ignorance is bliss

There has been so much inbreeding its rather hard to tell whether you are marrying your sister or not. And oh my yes, are red staters proud. My wife and I are happy here, she has a good job but we will most likely leave upon her retirement. Unfortunately due to my arthritis I can't go to far north. I'll just sit back and enjoy the live show.

[AllegroRondo]

24. Disply them proudly on your coffee table

then its Art, and a first amendment issue if they try to take it away.

[GreenCommie]

30. Haha

So would using them make it "performance art?"

[maxrandb]

28. What are Freeper Wives and Girlfriends going to do now? n/t

[Binka]

32. Become Lesbians

[InternalDialogue]

29. Guns don't kill people, dildos do.

I can't believe that a modern-day state legislature would even address the issue. I guess if someone wanted to press the matter, they could make a dildo that fires live rounds (or a gun that has a strap-on attachment) and let the lawmakers puzzle that out for a while.

[snooper2]

35. WooHoo!

I think we still have the fatest city, (Houston), but at least we are not the fattest state!

"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."

[Memory Container]

39. Will I need a carry permit for my jackrabbit?

Or is that more of a 'home protection' device?

[liberal N proud]

41. You can buy a gun but not a dildo

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.

"Make war not love," the motto of the American Conservative

[intheflow]

42. No sex toys and abortions are becoming illegal.

:eyes:

[madinmaryland]

47. I guess Bill O'rielly won't be going there!!!

[reichstag911]

50. Loofahs and falafel are still legal,...

...aren't they?

[EVDebs]

48. Medical device ? Couldn't Drs prescribe them for obvious reasons ?

Just to make the waters even murkier, aren't these devices a help for those who need them ?

[shain from kane]

51. Don't they keep everything beating regularly? n/t

[killbotfactory]

58. Are they going to ban phallic-shaped fruit and vegies as well?

They are dual-use technology, after all.

[BR_Parkway]

59. Oh good, ice cubes are exempt, no batteries involved. The women

in this state should simply stop having sex. None, not even once for a few weeks just to let the men know how they feel about how they are running the women's lives.