Liberal Repercussion

I found this out on the web. Brilliant discussion of the NUANCES of the body of Vibrator Law in Texas..


Yes, in Texas, vibrators are illegal. We wouldn't want people gettin' carried away, you know. So our esteemed Legislature banned not just vibrators...

...but all things "obscene," which Texas law defines as dildos, artificial vaginas, or any device "designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs." In my house, we call that sexual pleasure, and in the land of the free, some states regulate how you get yours. [...]

There are similar laws on the books in Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kansas, Colorado, and Alabama. Since the majority of people who use dildos, vibrators, and other insertable sex toys are women, making them contraband is another institutionalized form of controlling female sexuality. There's also an insidious double standard at play: A much higher percentage of men than women can masturbate to orgasm with their own hands. [...]

This from the same state where guns are not only legal and easily available, but concealed firearms are A-OK as long as you have a license.

Let's see...guns kill people, vibrators don't (or maybe most of us just aren't using them right). But the former are okay and the latter are not. Confused? Well, get this:

Apparently a vibrator [...] can be sold in the state of Texas if it has a face or an animal on it.

And there's no law against bondage gear, anal plugs, nipple clamps or cock rings. Just the non-animal-shaped, genital-stimulating stuff without a face is off-limits.

Absurd. Preposterous. But now I understand why all those Republican women are so uptight. ;)

posted by Rei Toei @ 9:47 p.m.