OK. I mean, the South Dakota ban on abortion was infuriating. and, yah, I was pretty up in arms about it. It's difficult enough for a girl to get an abortion here in California where it's all legal and were supposedly gung-ho about it. BUt, to outright ban it? No.

This, though, is really irritating. Now we shouldn't even be able to go out and buy lube, vibrators or anything else to liven it up and enjoy ourselves?

This Mother Jones article outlines the law and its effect now that the federal court has upheld it.

It makes me sad. And, in places like Alabama, where it's very private and sex isn't something that's boasted about to begin with, to eliminate the quiet, respectful means of buying the bunny ears vibrator and talking about how to use it over a cup of coffee with the single mother, country girl store owner is bullshit.


This store owner's been fighting Alabama's law for 8 years, and now that it has gone to the fed courts and been upheld...it could be all for naught.

This latest ruling may signal the end of Williams' long fight against a law she says smacks of puritanical hypocrisy. For eight years, she, a handful of sex-toy users, and a woman who hosts Tupperware-style adult novelty parties have been the lead plaintiffs in an ACLU-backed lawsuit challenging the ban as a violation of constitutional privacy rights. Similar bans have passed in Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas, but Williams has become perhaps the most vocal sex-store owner to challenge such laws.

So...once the federal courts ultimately outweigh...the laws in Georgia, Mississippi and Texas can go apeshit on fun sex, too! It honestly is really starting to scare me...the outright war against sex, sexual pleasure and sex as a recreational tool to just enjoy yourself, destress, or even express emotion. All of those things experienced in non-violent ways, if you're not married, should not be portrayed as negative in ANY way.

Williams' case has prevailed twice in district court, but the state has appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which in turn has overruled the plaintiffs and bounced the case back to the district each time. (So far, the Supreme Court has declined to hear the case.) In his brief supporting the ban, then-state attorney general Bill Pryor argued that "the commerce in sexual stimulation and auto-eroticism, for its own sake, unrelated to marriage, procreation, or familial relations is an evil, an obscenity…detrimental to the health and morality of the state." In the latest decision, a district judge concluded that, morality aside, the Alabama law "does not offend the human dignity" of sex-toy sellers and therefore was not unconstitutional. The appeals court is expected to weigh in one last time by this fall.

Freaking...who IS this dude? Detrimental to the health and morality of the state? I think he's detrimental to the health and morality of the state. Shit. I dunno about morality, because that's really subjective...but, health wise. I'm sure repressed sexual desires and un-relieved sexual tension are HORRIBLE for the health of our state. I know it. We'll start exploding everywhere, and that'll kill the mental health of everyone who has to watch.

This stuff just saddens me.