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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  08:05:45  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message
But the bigger question is why was it law to begin with and do we really need to be protected from these items.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11701658/#060321a

(edited to update link to a more permanent reference. Thanks Dr. Mabuse for pointing it out.)


Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils

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filthy
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  08:36:33   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer

But the bigger question is why was it law to begin with and do we really need to be protected from these items.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/



Heh, they might start thinking that they'll make the community still safer if they outlawed hands and tongues as well.

Why do we, in all states, continue to elect such numbfucks as these?




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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  11:31:29   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
Don't they have anything better to do?
Protecting the public health or something?
Can't they be indicted for dereliction of duty?

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filthy
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  12:37:10   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
America: Home of the Hang-Up, Land of the Repressed:

The Rude Pundit knows all, sees all, tells all.
quote:
For, indeed, the joys of sex are under attack in a concerted effort to deny you the right to fuck yourself or anyone else unless you're at least tryin' to make a baby, motherfucker. Take Mississippi, where the Supreme Court there upheld a law that bans the sale of "sex toys." Or, to really fuck up your wet dream, here's part of the text of the law: "A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs, or offers to do so, or possesses such devices with the intent to do so." So Caddy Compson, for instance, could own a mini-rabbit that, perhaps, Quentin could control with a remote, but she couldn't offer to sell one to Dilsey. And let's not even discuss the Jenna Jameson latex doll with grinding pussy action.

I have always found Mississippi to be a pleasant state, although it is starting to appear that it might be not so pleasant for those who live there.

The inevitable backlash is coming. It always does....




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Gorgo
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  13:05:19   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Gorgo a Private Message
I be we could sell a bunch of two-dimensional vibrators. (this statement not approved by the FDA)

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pleco
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  14:13:28   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message
Thank the deuce this is in Mississippi, and not Alabama. I often wonder why inane legislation usually doesn't happen here, but then I remember how inept the Alabama legislature is and how obsolete the Constitution is.

Could one argue that all sex toys are, in fact, 4 dimensional since they require time to work?

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JohnOAS
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  15:00:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit JohnOAS's Homepage Send JohnOAS a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Gorgo

I be we could sell a bunch of two-dimensional vibrators. (this statement not approved by the FDA)



You can't actually manufacture anything useful in 2 dimensions. If it was infinitely thin in one physical dimension, you'd end up slicing bits off and/or bleeding to death. There's bound to be someone who finds paper cuts and such sexually stimulating, but I don't think 2D sex aids are going to make you rich anytime soon.

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trogdor
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  15:06:01   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send trogdor a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by pleco

Thank the deuce this is in Mississippi, and not Alabama. I often wonder why inane legislation usually doesn't happen here, but then I remember how inept the Alabama legislature is and how obsolete the Constitution is.

Could one argue that all sex toys are, in fact, 4 dimensional since they require time to work?



No. By all means go further. enlighten the state that according to string theory, all of the matter in the universe, and therefore these sex toys, are 11 dimensional. Stick that up your (insert joke here) and smoke it!!

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trogdor
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  15:13:41   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send trogdor a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by JohnOAS

quote:
Originally posted by Gorgo

I be we could sell a bunch of two-dimensional vibrators. (this statement not approved by the FDA)



You can't actually manufacture anything useful in 2 dimensions. If it was infinitely thin in one physical dimension, you'd end up slicing bits off and/or bleeding to death. There's bound to be someone who finds paper cuts and such sexually stimulating, but I don't think 2D sex aids are going to make you rich anytime soon.



Nonsense! as long as the... erm... device is hollow, and the shell is two dimensional, (blow-up doll anyone?) than one could argue that the toy is simply 2-D in 3-D space.


who would have thought... Brian Greene allows me to think of loopholes in sex laws.

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Gorgo
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  16:11:44   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Gorgo a Private Message
quote:
I don't think 2D sex aids are going to make you rich anytime soon.



Oh, thee of little faith in gullibility.

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filthy
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  17:00:13   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
A G.W. Bush dildo ought to do the trick. He's about as two dimensional as you can get and still be able to use a larynx.




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Dude
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  17:43:53   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message
quote:
If it was infinitely thin in one physical dimension,


Meaning that it doesn't actually exist in that dimension, and therefore would pass right through you.


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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  17:44:35   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by filthy

The inevitable backlash is coming. It always does....





I predict an increase of sales of the Harry Potter Broom-Stick:




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marfknox
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  19:48:02   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message
Why is this even an issue? Most people masturbate. It doesn't hurt anyone. It doesn't decrease ability to produce children. And best of all, it is fun!

The most contemporary Christian-based argument against masturbation I've heard was from a campus preacher who said that masturbation was wrong because coveting sex with someone other than one's spouse is wrong, and people have such fantasies when they masturbate. So then I asked if it was OK to masturbate while fantasizing about my husband. He said there was no point in that because I could just have real sex with my husband. (in other words, he avoiding the issue.) So then I said "What if he's out of town for a few months, or just not in the mood?" Then he basically called me impatient and changed the subject. Of course that was the most thoughtful of all the preachers I've encountered who have condemned masturbation. Most just yell about how it is dirty and disgusting or quote the Bible, and don't really give any explanation as to why it is wrong.

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Ricky
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  21:19:26   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
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Nonsense! as long as the... erm... device is hollow, and the shell is two dimensional, (blow-up doll anyone?) than one could argue that the toy is simply 2-D in 3-D space.



Once you can make a blow-up doll with an infinitely small thickness of material, you'll be in business.

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Ghost_Skeptic
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Posted - 03/23/2006 :  23:55:32   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Ghost_Skeptic a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Ricky
Once you can make a blow-up doll with an infinitely small thickness of material, you'll be in business.


And be environmentally conscious at the same time by conserving nonrenewable resources.

Don't these wowsers have anything better to do - like arresting drunks in bars.

Anybody in Mississippi getting mail from this Canadian town will be in trouble.

"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King

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Edited by - Ghost_Skeptic on 03/25/2006 01:58:04
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