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Title: MISSISSIPPI OUTLAWS SEX TOYS
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URL Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6308419/
Published: Mar 21, 2006
Author: Dan Abrams
Post Date: 2006-03-22 15:50:39 by Mind_Virus
Keywords: MISSISSIPPI, OUTLAWS, TOYS
Views: 131
Comments: 21
March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET Mississippi Outlaws Sex Toys (Dan Abrams) There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week, another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will stand. “A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or possesses such devices with the intent to do so.” Well, I am glad to see that the local legislators are focusing on the most pressing issues of the day. I’ve long believed that a three-dimensional, possibly battery-operated device is far more menacing than a handgun. In Mississippi, people can buy guns at a gun show with no background check and certain weapons can be carried almost anywhere. Sure, guns and toys can bring joy and a sense of comfort to the user, but apparently the legislators concluded that a genital replica is a far greater threat to society. This, from a state that levies only an 18-cent tax on cigarettes, 55 cents below the national average and where 62 percent of residents are overweight, making it the fattest state in the country. Yet still the public schools don’t make gym class compulsory. Mississippi’s laws would make you believe sex is the single greatest threat to public safety and well-being. After all, it’s illegal in Mississippi to have sex with someone you’re not married to or to live with someone other than your spouse. Both can result in a $500 fine and six months in jail. And men are not permitted to be aroused in public. But at least good people are protected from the disfigurement that could result from an accidental electrical overload from a defective toy. Georgia and Texas have passed similar bans and courts have repeatedly ruled the legislators have the power to do it. I guess the Second Amendment doesn’t say anything about the right to bear a stimulation device. But the sex activists are not closing up shop in the South Pole just yet. They formed a lobbying group based in Florida called the National Alliance of Adult Trade Organizations or NAATO. Not, of course, to be confused with the other NATO, which is based in Brussels. I don’t mean to pick on Mississippi. I love the state and the people, but I just don’t get why the legislators are fighting so hard for this law. We’re talking about adults here. It’s not that I really care about ensuring that these toys are ready accessible. Really. It’s just that you have to wonder, is one of these toys really a greater threat to the community than what real live people do to each other every day?
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#1. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
Well I guess I can't be travelling to Mississippi any time soon ;P
I sense a business opportunity here :)
The lady was a Southern Baptist who attended services and taught Sunday School every week. On one Sunday, an out of town acquaintance, a gentleman, was in the pew right behind her. He noted what a fine looking woman she was. While they were taking up the collection, the man leaned forward and said, "Hey, how about you and I having dinner on Tuesday?" "Why Yes, that would be nice," the lady responded. Well, the gentleman couldn't believe his luck. On Tuesday he picked the lady up and took her to the finest restaurant in that part of South Carolina. When they sat down, the gentleman looked over at her and suggested, "Would you like a cocktail before dinner?" "Oh, no," said our circumspect fine example of southern womanhood, "What ever would I tell my Sunday School class?" Well, our gentleman was setback a bit, so he didn't say much until after dinner. When he pulled out a pack of cigarettes and asked, "Would you like a smoke?" "Oh my, goodness no," said the woman "I couldn't face my Sunday School class if I did?" Well, our boy felt pretty low after that, so they left, got in his car and as he was driving the lady home, they passed the local Holiday Inn. He'd been morally rebuffed twice already, so he figured he had nothing to lose so he ventured forth with, "Ahhh ..mmmm how would you like to stop at this motel?" "Sure, that would be nice," she said in anticipation. The gentleman couldn't believe his ears, and did a fast U turn right then and there and drove back to the motel and checked in. The next morning, after a wild and passionate night of the most incredible sex and perversions imaginable, the Gentleman awoke first. He looked at the lovely Dixie darling lying there in the bed and with remorse thought, "What the hell have I done?" He shook her awake and pleaded, "I've got to ask you one thing, whatever are you going to tell your Sunday School class?" The lady said, "The same thing I always tell them. 'You don't have to smoke and drink to have a good time.'"
Well you know where there's a will there's a way..
It's hard to believe Elvis came out of that state.
South Park needs to take a look at MISSISSIPPI.
Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? ~Barbara Bush on ABC's "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003.
LMFAO!!! I guess you could try to sneak your own across the border..Hide em in your gas tank but the dogs might sniff em out and you'll have a lot of splaining to do..;-)
A bus stops and 2 Italian men get on. They sit down and engage in an animated conversation. The lady sitting next to them ignores them at first, but her attention is galvanized when she hears one of them say the following: "Emma comefirst. Den I come. Den two asses come together. I come once-a-more. Two asses, they come together again. I come again and pee twice. Then I come one lasta time." "You foul-mouthed, sex-obsessed swine," retorted the lady indignantly. "In this country....we don't speak aloud in public places about our sex lives." "Hey, coola down lady," said the man. "Who'sa talkin' abouta sex? I'm a justa tellin' my frienda howa to spell Mississippi'."
LOL!!!
Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? ~Barbara Bush on ABC's "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003.
Hey I dont want to even attempt it!! Have you ever lost a 'best' friend?? Takes awhile to get over .. ;P
ROFLMAO!!!!
Awww shucks, I should have modified my joke to put it in the state of Mississippi.
That's priceless. I don't think you can tell it in Mississippi though.
"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."
ROTFLMFAO!!!!
Wellllllll.... ;)
Your trying to entrap me, aren't ya?
Moi?? ;)
It aint gonna work sweety. You gotta get up real early in the morning to confound and profound my sense of reasoning babe..;-)
You gotta get up real early in the morning to confound and profound my sense of reasoning babe..;-) ROFLMAO!!!! hahahaha!
Does this mean cucumbers are illegal? I grow those every year.
Yet another dispatch from.... Everyone's favorite department... The only thing this law will do, is sow a lot of dissent among women voters, and create back alley sex stores, and shops that cater to women. Not to mention increase male prostitution. I see this as a bad thing. Snicker...
#2. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
#3. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
I sense a business opportunity here :)
#5. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
#6. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
“A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs or offers to do so or possesses such devices with the intent to do so.”
#7. To: Zipporah (#1)
Well I guess I can't be travelling to Mississippi any time soon ;P
#8. To: robin, all (#6)
South Park needs to take a look at MISSISSIPPI.
#9. To: Jethro Tull (#8)
#10. To: Mind_Virus (#7)
I guess you could try to sneak your own across the border..Hide em in your gas tank but the dogs might sniff em out and you'll have a lot of splaining to do..;-)
#11. To: Jethro Tull (#8)
"Hey, coola down lady," said the man. "Who'sa talkin' abouta sex? I'm a justa tellin' my frienda howa to spell Mississippi'."
#12. To: Jethro Tull (#8)
#13. To: Jethro Tull (#8)
#14. To: Zipporah (#10)
Hey I dont want to even attempt it!! Have you ever lost a 'best' friend?? Takes awhile to get over .. ;P
#15. To: Mind_Virus (#14)
#16. To: Zipporah (#15)
Wellllllll.... ;)
#17. To: Mind_Virus (#16)
Your trying to entrap me, aren't ya?
#18. To: Zipporah (#17)
Moi?? ;)
#19. To: Mind_Virus (#18)
It aint gonna work sweety.
#20. To: All (#19)
So what's your problem?
#21. To: Mind_Virus, *You Gotta Be Shitting Me* (#0)
 | What's that Mr. Nipples? You want me to ask the nice lady about her rack?. |
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