Post by MorningStar on Jul 29, 2004 16:05:52 GMT -5
It scares me what the government can do!
Thursday, July 29, 2004 · Last updated 12:21 a.m. PT
Federal court OKs ban on sale of sex toys
By JAY REEVES
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a 1998 Alabama law banning the sale of sex toys in the state, ruling the Constitution doesn't include a right to sexual privacy.
In a 2-1 decision overturning a lower court, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the state has a right to police the sale of devices that can be sexually stimulating.
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The state law bans only the sale of sex toys, not their possession, the court said, and it doesn't regulate other items including condoms or virility drugs. "The Alabama statute proscribes a relatively narrow bandwidth of activity," U.S. Circuit Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr. wrote.
Circuit Judge Rosemary Barkett disagreed, saying the decision was based on the "erroneous foundation" that adults don't have a right to consensual sexual intimacy and that private acts can be made a crime in the name of promoting "public morality."
SOURCE: seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Sex%20Toys%20Ban
Thursday, July 29, 2004 · Last updated 12:21 a.m. PT
Federal court OKs ban on sale of sex toys
By JAY REEVES
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a 1998 Alabama law banning the sale of sex toys in the state, ruling the Constitution doesn't include a right to sexual privacy.
In a 2-1 decision overturning a lower court, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the state has a right to police the sale of devices that can be sexually stimulating.
...
The state law bans only the sale of sex toys, not their possession, the court said, and it doesn't regulate other items including condoms or virility drugs. "The Alabama statute proscribes a relatively narrow bandwidth of activity," U.S. Circuit Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr. wrote.
Circuit Judge Rosemary Barkett disagreed, saying the decision was based on the "erroneous foundation" that adults don't have a right to consensual sexual intimacy and that private acts can be made a crime in the name of promoting "public morality."
SOURCE: seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Sex%20Toys%20Ban
