If new bill outlaws sex toys in S.C., only outlaws will have sex toys

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Bill would make sale of sex toys illegal in South Carolina

By SEANNA ADCOX
The Associated Press
April 21, 2006

http://www.independentmail.com/and/home/article/0,1886,AND_8195_4641568,00.html

COLUMBIA — 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."

[rpannier]

1. That's a classic

I think I'll have that made into a bumper sticker and a key chain.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. "There I was on the Group W bench . . .

. . . with all the mother-rapers, father-rapers, and dildo salesmen."

[madokie]

32. Alice's restaurant, Arlo Guthrie

I would venture to say that a lot here have never heard of it.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

36. yeah, evidently . . .

;)

[BlooInBloo]

3. Wow. Girls with sex toys were always hot - now they're outlaws too?

SUPERHOT!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[rucky]

4. What if I want cucumbers on my salad? n/t

[xray s]

5. Does that include cucumbers at the Winn Dixie?

And warm apple pie?

[jmowreader]

8. Cukes at Winn-Dixie: breaking & entering

Since all the Winn-Dixies are now closed due to bankruptcy, you'll have to get your cucumbers somewhere else.

But no, cucumbers will still be okay. This bill bans items used primarily for "sexual stimulation" and last I checked, cucumbers are used primarily for feeding plecostomus catfish and making those little sandwiches Society Women serve with tea.

[xray s]

14. Winn Dixies are closed?

Well heck! They were my favorite store when I'd travel in the south.

They still have Publix though, right?

[jmowreader]

31. Publix is still in business

Where have you been, DUer? Last year the warmhearted family-friendly movie "Because of Winn-Dixie" was released. About two weeks later, all the Winn-Dixie stores closed.

Somehow I think it was coincidental--the food tent I was running at my Hurricane Andrew refugee camp in Homestead was cleaner than the Winn-Dixie closest to my house.

[LuCifer]

44. Not last time I checked!

Publix can bite me. Big time fundie funder. Fuku that!

Lu

[TreasonousBastard]

15. No, but it might include Reddi-Whip (and handcuffs.)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. "Mommas... don't let your babies grow up to buy sex toys....

I feel a horrible parody of Weird Al parodying Willie Nelson coming on....


:rofl:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

7. Mercy.

I can hear it. And he's singing to an inflatable cowboy . . .

[Viva_La_Revolution]

23. I'll never be able to listen to that song again without cracking up

:evilgrin:

[WinkyDink]

24. Bravo!

Heehee!

[DeadManInc]

9. What are they going to do with all of the repukes

then? They are all dildo's!

[havocmom]

10. Or: when dildos are outlawed, only state legislatures will have dildos.

Which used to be my sig line not long ago

[libhill]

48. But but but

state legislators are dildos. Most of 'em anyway -

[LiberalPartisan]

11. Why legislate important issues when you can legislate morality? n/t

[Neil Lisst]

12. If sex toys are outlawed, only Fox News will have Dildos

[PublicWrath]

13. And loofahs and falafels.......n/t

[nevergiveup]

16. Next there will be a bill

making it felony to have an orgasm. I fear the apocalypse is near.

[MatrixEscape]

17. Simple Solution:

Just sell the sex toys as "works of art". When you fight this battle for the MIND and its mythic realm, you have to be as creative as you can.

Changing the context changes the nature and lines of battle -- especially when the other side is tying to draw them around you. Sun Tzu would agree!

Remember how the paraphernalia vendors worked the game.

"I don't exist! This is NOT happening. There is nowhere to go from here! All that is left is the shedding of the skin."

[Nikia]

18. We have a friend who makes glass dildos

My mother-in-law thought that they were just art at first. We had to explain to her that some people actually use them rather than just having a glass phallic sculpture around.

[greyl]

30. Not really.

People aren't stupid, and bongs were never sold as works of art.(though many of them are)

Should automatic weapons be sold as works of art to "work the game"?

[skipos]

19. Of all the things politicians could be working on...

:eyes:

[AngelFactor]

20. We've come a long way?

It's efforts like this that show how far up the evolutionary chain we've got to go.

[Golden Raisin]

21. Swell. Let's bring government into everyone's bedrooms.

Let's put in spycams and take detailed inventories of the "toys" found on the premises. Start with Karl Rove, then move on to the Bush girls. Dubya and Laura next, followed by Poppy & Babs. Scott McClellan & Jeff Gannon too. Let's not forget the TV personalities (calling Bill O'Reilly) and newspaper folks (Robert Novak and Judith Miller). It can be tit for tat (pun intended) for all the holier-than-thou pontificating we heard ad nauseam and endlessly about Bill and Monica.

[Golden Raisin]

22. Oops! I forgot all the fundies and "family values" crowd.

Let's see what's going on in the bedrooms of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed, Phyllis Schlafly, et al.

[mwooldri]

47. But how many times do they play the lottery??? Hmmm.....

"Fundamental Christian Values" and the Lottery. They may have opposed it like crazy to begin with but I bet they play. And SC got their lottery before we did here in NC... and we're a few shades more purple than SC. (I guess we finally caved in when everyone figured out that everyone was going out of state to buy lottery tickets - and back then it was even a crime for me to type this message or mention going to buy lottery tickets (we were going to buy some "pottery"...)

I guess SC might wake up to the fact that everyone is buying their sex toys on ebay or coming up here to NC or across to GA to buy them.

Mark.

[WinkyDink]

25. I will never understand why Republicans can get away with the

intrusions into private lives that they do.

Are only Demnocrats affected? I think not.

[depakid]

35. Yep- the party of small government

It's amazing that they can get away with that- and have so many people continue- despite all of the evidence to the contrary- to both believe it and parrot it. Yet they do.

[guidod]

26. Why is everybody going in the wrong direction?

[BrownOak]

27. Fireworks good, sex toys bad

Gotta love South Carolina.

[NMMNG]

28. Meanwhile, people are homeless and hungry....

:eyes:

[libhill]

41. Dang ol' homeless folks -

too dad burn lazy to work fer a livin'. Want them free hand outs like them soshlist demmycrat librals want to give out. J.B. Bigbux, that fine Republican feller what owns this county, hires down to the car wash ever' day, pays up to nigh on a dollar an hour now. If I work thar 'til Im 94, them folks might even let me retire, an' give me a real Timex watch. So Gawd Bless Amurka and George Bush too -

[NMMNG]

50. LOL

Sounds like a mighty fine plan there libhill. :rofl:

[libhill]

51. Durn tootin' missy -

never heard tell o' Jaysus ah lookin' fer no hand out. Mr. Bigbux done learned me 'bout how Jaysus run them demcrat fellers plum out that Temple, cuz they's givin' handouts to them no 'count poor people. When I larn me some readin' an' writin', gonna read me that story myself - my brother sez he kin learn me, but right now he's ah fightin' fer my freedom cuz that Saydamn Whosane done did 9/11 like, Mr. Bush said...

[Seabiscuit]

29. Coat hangers, good. Sex toys, bad.

Why do these loathsome Republican men always want to screw with women's private parts like this?

[Spike from MN]

33. Hmmm...so the sale would be illegal

but I bet they could still be given away for free as "promotional merchandise." For example, buy a "Welcome to SC" postcard for $15.99 and the store will throw in a free dildo. I'd love to see gas stations advertise free giveaways with every 5th tank fill-up or whatever. Put it right out there on the billboard for everyone to see.

From the article, "Other states that ban the sell of sex toys include Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas." Good gawd, don't the people in these states have more important things to worry about? And Rep. Davenport wants to make the sale of sex toys a felony? A friggin' FELONY? Isn't that a rather, um, stiff punishment (yeah, pun intended) for such a minor thing? I bet Rep. Davenport is just mad that his wifey prefers her sex toy to him. If this bill passes, I hope she throws out all her sex toys and finds herself some nice 19-year-old stud as a replacement. It would serve Rep. Davenport right.

That said, I'd still love to hear the arguments in the legislature on this bill. Wish I could be there to laugh my ass off at all the insecure idiots that somehow feel their "manliness" is threatened by an inanimate object.

[ComerPerro]

34. Why is it that I see so many adult-themed stores in Bush country?

Right wing, red state, rural America is full of them.

Why is that?

[libhill]

37. Well -

they won't get my "french tickler" 'till they take out of my cold dead hands -

[ContraBass Black]

38. So, how long until the generic police raid scenes in cop action movies

Start to include kicking down doors in the middle of the night "on suspicion of prohibited hardware, likely located in the master bedroom?"

[libhill]

39. bad boy, bad boy

whatcha gonna do when they come for you, bad toy, bad toy -I can just see it on an episode of my new show, "Morality Cops"

[ContraBass Black]

40. "Ma'am, the neighbors called in suspicious noises from the upstairs."

"We're going to have to investigate immediately."

[cynatnite]

42. South Caroline is a copycat...TN is getting one of those laws, too

Apparently, lawmakers in this impoverished red state can't find enough serious problems to address, so they've turned their minds to sex, specifically sex toys.

For unknown reasons, State Senator Charlotte Burks (DINO) and State Rep. Eric Swafford (R) have been thinking a lot about the activities going on your bedroom. They have come to the conclusion that Tennessee will be a better place to live if the state regulates your bedroom by outlawing dildos.

http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2006/03/lawmakers-r-seek-to-outlaw-dildos.html

[kevinbgoode]

43. One step closer to the official sex permit

and state-approved only missionary positions.

[cynatnite]

45. I'm sensing a trend here...

They want to ban abortion.
They want to deny us women birth control.
They want to deny us dildos.


I'm so fucking tired of these men thinking they can control my body. :grr:

[kevinbgoode]

46. that's okay, hon....women are in the majority..and if you add in

the gays, some nice petitions restricting sperm ejaculation until marriage might give them a taste of their own faux puritanical medicine.

[libhill]

49. I agree with ya, but

bear it in mind there are a lot of female repukes and fundies out there too. Cuz Billy Bob done knowed what be right fer his wimmin folk, an' the wimmin folk agrees, an' done do what Billy Bob an' Jaysus an George Bush done tells 'em. Politics is too fer over a womans head, an' they vote like their men folk done says... Of course I'm being sarcastic, but I have a close female friend who has that mentality. She told me she's a Republican, and when I asked her why, she came up with crap almost like that. Her daddy and her x are Republicans, and she votes like them.. I didn't pursue it because I don't want to lose a friend of years. But there ya go...

[Swamp Rat]

52. I bet Ralph Davenport has one of these in his office closet:

:D