Dildos Now Legal in Texas
Permit yet another non-Boalt diversion from yet another non-Boalt student...
Just it time for Valentine's Day, the Fifth Circuit helps the public learn to help themselves. In this opinion, the Fifth Circuit strikes down Texas's "obscene-device statute" as unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. Across the state you will soon hear a big sigh of... relief.
It's just not easy being a moralistic legislator in Texas. First Lawrence v. Texas. Now they can't even ban "a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs," as the statute reads. Until I saw this case, I had no idea the word "dildo" appeared in a statute anywhere.
And before we go, the money line: "Advertisements of the devices could be prohibited if they are obscene... [b]ut the State may not prohibit the promotion or sale of a bed, even one specially designed or marketed for sexual purposes, by merely defining it as obscene." Zing!
Just it time for Valentine's Day, the Fifth Circuit helps the public learn to help themselves. In this opinion, the Fifth Circuit strikes down Texas's "obscene-device statute" as unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. Across the state you will soon hear a big sigh of... relief.
It's just not easy being a moralistic legislator in Texas. First Lawrence v. Texas. Now they can't even ban "a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs," as the statute reads. Until I saw this case, I had no idea the word "dildo" appeared in a statute anywhere.
And before we go, the money line: "Advertisements of the devices could be prohibited if they are obscene... [b]ut the State may not prohibit the promotion or sale of a bed, even one specially designed or marketed for sexual purposes, by merely defining it as obscene." Zing!
posted by Callagy at 2:49 PM
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"Didlo" in Lexis under federal litigation turns up 138 hits . . . and now growing!
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There's no word for "artificial vagina?" Dildon't? Anything?
Replicunt?
fleshlight. google it.
dear, god. i just about died laughing (yes, I am a bad person).
there is a budget version, too, you know:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-570757440916927648
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=artificial+vagina
See Jailgina - seriously?
Dildos have a long history of appearing before the supreme court. Last term, a sex store filed a cert petition after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the very same statute struck down by the 5th Circuit. So now there's a Circuit split (5th and 11th) and state court splits.
Place your bets now: which justice will be the first to say dildo during oral arguments?
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I want it to go to SCOTUS mainly to hear a crazy Breyer hypothetical, hopefully something involving raccoons.
Has no one been to a pleasure party? The word for artificial vagina is "Gigi."
class ranks are up and being discussed on your (non?) "rival" blog
issue is being discussed at the chron
No Way Mr. anonymous!
Maybe "obscene-device" (dildo) has bee misinterpreted in the law?
Maybe they were trying to clean up the state government?
No dildos...in Texas government. Makes more sense than banning plastic penises.
Although they would have to import their political talent as a consequence.
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