Go forth all Texans and legally buy sex toys!

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Texas law making it illegal to sell or promote obscene devices, punishable by up to two years in jail, violated the Constitution’s 14th Amendment on the right to privacy.

“Just as in Lawrence [the case that knocked down our law against sodomy], the state here wants to use its laws to enforce a public moral code by restricting private intimate conduct,” the appeals judges wrote. “The case is not about public sex. It is not about controlling commerce in sex. It is about controlling what people do in the privacy of their own homes because the state is morally opposed to a certain type of consensual private intimate conduct. This is an insufficient justification after Lawrence.”

About damn time, as it was really one of those completely stupid laws. It’s not like we weren’t buying and selling sex toys, we just couldn’t call them that. Heaven forbid anyone call them dildos or vibrators! The horror! :rolleyes: