Thursday, April 27, 2006

When Double-Dongs Are Outlawed...

Earlier this month (posts here and here), I mentioned how unlikely it would be for someone to confuse South Carolina for Massachusetts anytime soon.

Well, this post from Lee at Right-Thinking from the Left Coast adds yet another reason to that list. Though, in this case, it's the Bay State that comes out on top in the common sense rankings.

From the Charlotte Observer:

Bill would make sale of sex toys illegal in South Carolina

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.


After which, the seized devices will be promptly destroyed.

Yeah, right.

The ACLU got involved in the case, [ACLU attorney, Mark Lopez] said, to "keep the government out of the bedroom."


Unless, of course, the government wants to steal the handgun from your bedside pistol safe. The ACLU's been remarkably silent on that front.

Though the laws don't punish people for owning sex toys, banning their sale is a backdoor attempt to discourage their use, Lopez said.


Nice choice of phrasing there.

No word on whether or not an exemption has been included "for a bona fide medical, scientific, educational, legislative, judicial or law enforcement purpose." And just think, for once, a "sporting purposes" clause would have made sense.