Texas Sex Toys & The Supreme Court
By Vince Leibowitz on Oct 3, 2006 in WTF?
Why does it seem as though Texas is the only state where the main constitutional challenges that run through our legal system involve Tom DeLay, dildos, the Ten Commandments, and sex, to wit:
The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether a Texas law making it a crime to promote sex toys shaped like sexual organs is unconstitutional.
An adult bookstore employee in El Paso, Texas, sued the state after his arrest for showing two undercover officers a device shaped like a penis and telling the female officer the device would arouse and gratify her.
The employee, Ignacio Sergio Acosta, says a Texas law outlawing the manufacture, marketing or dissemination of an “obscene device” including those shaped like sex organs is unconstitutional because it prevents individuals from using such devices, violating their right to sexual privacy.
I don’t know if I’m more surprised that the Supremes didn’t take the case, or that the Dallas Morning news allowed the words “sex toys,” “sexual organs” and “penis” to appear in the first two paragraphs of the story (even thought it was AP copy).
Alert the Burleson Police Department!