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Are they sure this isn’t Florida?
Wow, this is just f’ing stupid. In Lubbock, Texas, a sex and lingerie store (Somethin’ Sexy) was raided by four local cops. They confiscated several sex toys which state law says you can’t intend to sell in bulk, with “bulk” being more than six (while the story is unclear on what the toys actually were, references to them being “devices,” and the fact that the store owner says they are very popular, certainly suggests your run-of-the-mill vibrator).
Now if that’s all there was, this story wouldn’t be that bad, since it is a state law and everything (putting aside that this law is pretty stupid, in and of itself, of course). But Somethin’ Sexy’s owner says that Lubbock is taking a hardline approach to enforcing this law, because similar products are sold out in the open in Dallas stores without any problem. Yet his store is in trouble, and it wasn’t even selling them “out in the open” - he kept the “devices” in a closed cabinet and only sold them when folks asked for them (people would know about the products if they elected to receive mailings, but the products were otherwise unadvertised).
The Lubbock Assistant D.A. had this to say about their enforcement of obscenity laws and how the city defines obscenity:
“If they tell them this is a candle put in on the birthday cake this is a novelty if they tell you to use it to enjoy sexual gratification, its no longer a candle on the birthday cake” says Assistant D.A. John Grace.
But we’re still not to the truly bad part of this story. The truly ridiculous part of this story is that the owner of Somethin’ Sexy isn’t the one who was arrested - instead, it was the store’s clerk who was arrested. And, if she’s convicted on these charges, she’ll have to register as a sex offender.
…F’ing puritanical rubes.
(Credit for pointing this story out, as well as for the title of this entry, to reader Kris S. Thanks, Kris!)
