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june262004
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I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Sex Toys for 'Medical Reasons'
Finally, some states have laws that creep right into the bedroom. In Alabama, state legislators have banned the sale of sex toys. That upset Sherri Williams, who has owned Pleasures, the "One-Stop Romance Shop," for 14 years.
Williams says her customers certainly seem happy that her store is here. "There's not a day that goes by that I don't get a thank you, or, 'Oh, gosh, I so much appreciate you telling me about that,'" she said.
But then came the ban on adult sex toys.
Sherri Williams' husband, Dave Smith, said there's something odd about the law.
"You know in the state of Alabama I can buy a gun," he said. "I can carry it in my pocket."
But if he buys a vibrator, someone could get arrested and fined up to $10,000 — almost five times the limit for drunken driving.
American Civil Liberties Union president Nadine Strossen helped Sherri Williams challenge the law.
When you have a right to engage in certain sexual conducts, sometimes products are involved. … You have a right to use sex devices in the privacy of your own bedroom. You can't enjoy that right unless you can buy the sex toys," she said.
But the 11th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled on Jan. 31, 2001 that communities have a "legitimate legislative interest in discouraging prurient interests in autonomous sex" — masturbation, in other words — because that may be "detrimental to the health and morality of the State." After numerous appeals affirming the inital ruling, the case was finally settled when the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal last October.
Oddly, however, Pleasures is still in business, because the law makes an exception if a sex toy is sold for a medical purpose.
"I do not sell sex toys for enjoyment, no," Williams said. "I only sell sex toys for medical reasons."
Her shop hands out a questionnaire to every customer, asking questions such as, "Do you or your partner have difficulty having an ******?" or "Do you climax too quickly?" Saying "yes" once constitutes a medical purpose.
Who's the government protecting? It's not as if anyone has been killed by a vibrator.
The Alabama state senator who sponsored the legislation wouldn't talk. But Sprigg of Family Research Council shared his opinion.
"The government is protecting actually the people who patronize those shops because I don't think it's in their interest to use pornography and sex toys," he said.
But don't adults get to choose what's in their interest?
"We have to look at society's interest as well," Sprigg said. "Society does have an interest in people's private sexual behavior."
No, it doesn't, shopowner Williams countered. She believes private should mean private.
"They will have to pry this vibrator from my cold dead hand before I stop selling them," she said.
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BaroqueMama
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
There is so much wrong about this that I don't even want to go into it. Why is the government always trying to infringe upon personal situations? Ugg. Isn't there more important things to be concerned with?
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Posted by prncss
There is so much wrong about this that I don't even want to go into it. Why is the government always trying to infringe upon personal situations? Ugg. Isn't there more important things to be concerned with?
You have lots of sex toys don't you
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BaroqueMama
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Posted by Stacey1403
Posted by prncss
There is so much wrong about this that I don't even want to go into it. Why is the government always trying to infringe upon personal situations? Ugg. Isn't there more important things to be concerned with?
You have lots of sex toys don't you
No, I have a lot of medical issues though 
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Posted by prncss
Posted by Stacey1403
Posted by prncss
There is so much wrong about this that I don't even want to go into it. Why is the government always trying to infringe upon personal situations? Ugg. Isn't there more important things to be concerned with?
You have lots of sex toys don't you
No, I have a lot of medical issues though
bwahahahahaha
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
and to think oral sex is still illegal in some states blows my mind too
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LightUpOurLife
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Posted by Stacey1403
You have lots of sex toys don't you
OMG!!!!!!!! You just made me totally crack up!
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Posted by Phyl
and to think oral sex is still illegal in some states blows my mind too
That's not the only thing that blows! Heyo!
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Posted by RoleModel
Posted by Phyl
and to think oral sex is still illegal in some states blows my mind too
That's not the only thing that blows! Heyo!
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Posted by Phyl
and to think oral sex is still illegal in some states blows my mind too
What freaks me out is that there was a famous case about it--Bowers v. Hardwick. Hardwick was the name of the guy who was caught having oral sex with another man. Hardwick!!!! If that's your name, you are probably destined to be caught with your pants down. The case was overturned but the next case did not have such a fun name!
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Posted by Phyl
and to think oral sex is still illegal in some states blows my mind too
You said oral and blow in the same sentence
Sinner
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
I missed this story but saw the one about monogomy. That was a waste of 15 minutes. 
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Wow, people in Alabama are really uptight!! 
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ReiRei13
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
That was a GREAT episode!!!
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Posted by Teachergal
Wow, people in Alabama are really uptight!!
Nope just very sick with all their "medical" issues
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Posted by Kerie-is-so-very
Posted by Phyl
and to think oral sex is still illegal in some states blows my mind too
What freaks me out is that there was a famous case about it--Bowers v. Hardwick. Hardwick was the name of the guy who was caught having oral sex with another man. Hardwick!!!! If that's your name, you are probably destined to be caught with your pants down. The case was overturned but the next case did not have such a fun name!
You can't make this stuff up folks! I remember that case...
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Cop: "Is that a vibrator in your pocket???"
Local: "No, its a gun."
Cop: "Oh, OK, come on in."
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Posted by Stacey1403
Posted by Phyl
and to think oral sex is still illegal in some states blows my mind too
You said oral and blow in the same sentence
Sinner
Too bad there is no THAT BLOWS board
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Phyl
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Posted by karacg
Cop: "Is that a vibrator in your pocket???"
Local: "No, its a gun."
Cop: "Oh, OK, come on in."
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
only in america
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Posted by Phyl
Posted by Stacey1403
Posted by Phyl
and to think oral sex is still illegal in some states blows my mind too
You said oral and blow in the same sentence
Sinner
Too bad there is no THAT BLOWS board
well sucks and blows can be mutually exclusive
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Re: I only sell sex toys for medical reasons. Anyone watching 20/20?
Posted by Stacey1403
Posted by Phyl
Posted by Stacey1403
Posted by Phyl
and to think oral sex is still illegal in some states blows my mind too
You said oral and blow in the same sentence
Sinner
Too bad there is no THAT BLOWS board
well sucks and blows can be mutually exclusive
But it's not spelled out for us
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