Other states that ban the sale of sex toys include Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas.
I actually think this bill has more to do with closing down the huge sex shops popping up along the interstates than with anything else.
I find it hard to believe that they would outlaw sex toys and ignore the fact that South Carolina has one of the largest swinger clubs in the south headquartered here in York county.
I don't think you're correct about GA, if they do have a law it is not enforced at all, one drive down Cheshire Bridge will confirm that.
Sex toys aren't banned in Georgia. They may be in other the states though.
The ones in Georgia, contrary to the fear that fundies like to spread, aren't located next to homes - they are in business districts.
i am pretty certain GA does not
Texas doesn't ban sex toys per se, it just bans the "promotion" (i.e., sale or advertising) of "an obscene device", which is defined as something, and I quote, "designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs". Most sex shops in Texas (and there are no shortage of them) avoid trouble by not describing exactly what their wares can be used for, or how, by not carrying devices that are "too realistic", and by labeling the items "novelties".
There's also a lot of room for loopholes in clause 43.23(g) of the statute: " It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that the person who possesses or promotes material or a device proscribed by this section does so for a bona fide medical, psychiatric, judicial, legislative, or law enforcement purpose."
Related stories (and ya gotta love the headline on the first one):
Is That a Perfectly Legal, Anatomically Correct Condom Education Model, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?Note that in the second story, what really got her in trouble was not selling the items, but instead it was describing what they were for and how they were used, thus making it clear what the "devices" were "primarily" for, which is they key phrase in the law. As BeAnn Sisemore, the Texas mom's lawyer, points out, "This law is about how you represent what the product is for. I can have the most obnoxious item in the world, and as long as I call it a 'novelty,' I can sell it all day long. If I educate you on how to use it, it's illegal."
Eight months later, after putting the Texas mom and her family through legal and financial hell, and driving them into bankruptcy, the town dropped the charges, officially stating that they didn't want to "waste city resources", but the real reasons likely involved the massive amount of national (and international) derision and scorn they were receiving, and that it came out that the "investigation" was instigated by a couple of local folks with petty personal grudges against the mom, who were trying to make trouble for her.
The laws used to exist all over. Some were repealed, most others are ignored. Trying to pass a new one in the 21st century is ... novel.