Kudos to the owners of Adam and Eve and the local shops in Austin, Texas who fought this battle. Yesterday on Feb 13, the 5th Circuit court struck down a law that said a person couldn’t own more than 5 devices for sexual stimulation. I’ve always thought this was the silliest law. I mean really, let’s count the ones I own that I can’t do without and that certainly can’t be taken from me legally…2 hands, 2 feet, 1 mouth, 1 my big bubble butt, 1 vagina, my … oh gees this could get endless… but I”m already up to 7 and probably can add about 30 more just attached to me permanently forever. Okay,okay that is not what the law applies to. When I first moved to Texas I asked a law enforcement officer about that law, I wanted to know if it was true that you couldn’t own more than 5 sex toys. He said they don’t enforce that anyway, no DA in their right mind would want to prosecute that. Then, in 2003 a very nice lady held private tuperware or pampered chef style parties to sell sex toys. It was discrete and a whole lot of fun. that was up near Dallas. The lady joined the chamber of commerce and one of the little old biddy’s on the chamber didn’t like that. The inside scoop is that the little old biddy was apparently bopping the chief of police, so she complained to him. He took some of his highly trained narcotics officers off of busting drug manufacturers and put him on the nice lady. It took them 3 months for her to use the word ‘dildo’ instead of the politically correct ‘novelty massage device’, then they busted her. Of course everyone knows a dildo is for sexual stimulation. And of course she had more than 5 available for sell at her parties. So the nice lady went to jail. She was stuck in jail over the weekend while 3 crack dealers were jailed and released. Makes a whole lot of sense to me! Does it to you? Nice lady stuck in jail, nice lady who just promotes safe sex and getting of with your mate in the privacy of your own home without harming anyone else.. and in the meantime 3 crack dealers are let out to go promote sharing needles and drugs and … well all that nasty stuff that goes with illegal drugs like stealing… etc. Anyway, As the story goes… (it just happened to be an election year too, imagine that) the DA was told by the judges to just let it lie and finally the case was dismissed. I was kind of hoping that they’d do that to me. I would love the publicity for my company. But they’d be busting me on my own private collection as we don’t warehouse in Texas. Darn.

Apparently a DA did in Austin decided he did want to test the law, this time the shop owners and a mail order retail company decided it was time for the silliness to end. You can read about it here.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/02/14/0214sextoys.html