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PhilipTheBucket ( PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat )  to And Finally...@feddit.uk · 2 years ago

Texas Prevents People From Owning More Than 6 Dildos. Now Lawmakers Want to Ban Sex Toys at Walmart.

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Texas Prevents People From Owning More Than 6 Dildos. Now Lawmakers Want to Ban Sex Toys at Walmart.

www.xatakaon.com

PhilipTheBucket ( PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat )  to And Finally...@feddit.uk · 2 years ago
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Texas Prevents People From Owning More Than 6 Dildos. Now Lawmakers Want to Ban Sex Toys at Walmart
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Texas is the land where regulation is always second, or so they say. However, it’s also a state where politicians have chosen to regulate oddly specific...
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  • floofloof ( floofloof@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Yay! More small government and freedom!

    • CileTheSane ( CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ) 
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      Small enough to fit in your underwear drawer!

  • Darkassassin07 ( Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Yes. Texas bans the possession of or promoting use of more than six dildos.

    It does make exceptions for people who have the multiples of the device for medical and law enforcement purposes.

    Lmao. Police officers can legally use an array of didos for ‘law enforcement’.

    You’ll be arrested if you cheer them on for it tho…

    BUT if you can prove it’s medically necessary; you’re welcome to have a cornucopia of rubber cocks.

    • Letstakealook ( Letstakealook@lemm.ee ) 
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      I think the DOJ needs to investigate how exactly the police in Texas have been using dildos in the performance of their duties…

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 ( Emperor@feddit.uk ) 
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        “Come out with your hands up or we send in the dildos!”

        Suddenly the kidnappers realised they’d brought guns to a dildo fight and surrendered.

      • CileTheSane ( CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ) 
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        They need to keep them on hand in case they find one and need to plant 6 more.

    • nocturne ( nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ) 
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      I have loose bowels, I need 7 dildos to plug it and stop my anal leakage.

  • lightnsfw ( lightnsfw@reddthat.com ) 
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    *trying to buy salad ingredients for the family cookout*

    The cashier: sorry state prevents us from selling more than 5 cucumbers at a time.

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    Is there a shortage of dildos in Texas that they need such laws to stop hoarding?

  • CileTheSane ( CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Government so small it can fit in your bedroom!

    How were they enforcing this?

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      They’ll know I’m breaking the law, because I’ll be flying my custom gadsen flag with 7 dildoes on it that reads “Come and count them”

      • DragonTypeWyvern ( DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) 
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        Removed by mod

  • KingJalopy  ( KingJalopy@lemm.ee ) 
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    How…how are they enforcing this?

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      Its something to charge you with when the cops go on a fishing expedition at your house for weed or whatever else.

      Its just a punishment law that cops get to use at their discretion totally fairly.

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        At least they can fuck themselves while they’re at it I guess

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      Guten Tag! Ve are from se Small Government Staffel, here to inspect your bedroom. Vere are your papers for sese?

      • UltraGiGaGigantic ( UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ) 
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        A government so small it can fit inside your butthole.

        Is it in yet?

      • GreatAlbatross ( GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ) 
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        You are sheltering them under the floorboards, are you not?

        • Barowinger  ( Barowinger@lemm.ee ) 
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          Se Fuhrer will make you all build Autobahn if we discover you are hiding something in here!

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      “Open up, morailty police!”

      “Sir, do you have more than 6 dildos on the property?”

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      • Barowinger  ( Barowinger@lemm.ee ) 
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        Which episode is this from?

        • DoucheBagMcSwag ( DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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          Reverse Cowgirl.

          The one with the TSA

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      People like to sample the produce as they shop, granted it’s usually a bag of crisps or a handful of grapes but it’s the same… ballpark.

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  • azimir ( azimir@lemmy.ml ) 
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    The One Star State is at it again. “Freedom” there is not really a thing since the government obviously owns the citizens.

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    Rofl, they were afraid for their right to bear arms instead of their right to bear dildos.

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      Bare arse, more like!

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    Besides banning the sale of sex toys, the Texas Obscenity Statute also specified the number of “obscene devices”—for example, dildos—a person could own: six. The number was not chosen at random, but rather because lawmakers assumed that people who owned more than six obscene devices that were identical or similar had the intent to distribute them.

    Theoretically, it should be possible to have more than six obscene devices without by guilty of intending to supply them - cock ring, butt plug, fleshlight, dildo, strap-on, inflatable sheep, Ben Wa balls, nipple clamps and penis cage. All have different uses, all without intending to supply.

    If supply was the concern (although I don’t know why), perhaps criminalise that not the bottom drawer of my bedside table.

    • antlion ( antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      Ah so it’s basically like with drugs. Once you have more than a personal amount it’s possession with intent to distribute.

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    First, they came for the dildos, and I did nothing.

    • JillyB ( JillyB@beehaw.org ) 
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      Because I was not a dildo

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    So… are there like, auditors? Does the government pay someone to go around and inventory peoples’ sex toys? Do you have to register your devices? Are they serialized? Do you have to report them on your state tax return?

    Who are these people whackjobs that spend so much time thinking about what other people are doing in their bedrooms?

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      If you want an example of what enforcement of this looks like, take a look at Iran’s morality police. That is the end game for these kinds of laws.

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    Look, I have SIX perfectly fine dildos, all in their individual velvet pouches. My grandma even gives me a knowing wink when she sees them on my nightstand (she’s very with-it, my grandma). But the minute I walk into Walmart and snag NUMBER SEVEN - BAM! 💥 The world implodes. Little Timmy starts twerking in the cereal aisle, the self-checkout beeps incessantly with unholy vibrations, and a rogue bag of gummy worms spontaneously transforms into a life-size silicone replica of the Lone Star State… it’s CHAOS, I tell ya! This clearly-reasonable six-dildo limit is PROTECTING our precious Texas innocence. Seven just unleashes the primal urges, and nobody wants that, especially not while picking out a new can of Copenhagen. 🤠

    #SixIsTheMagicNumber #TexasStrong #ProtectTheInnocence (and the Gummy Worms)

  • CubitOom ( CubitOom@infosec.pub ) 
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    Need to make a proposal to limit cross walls to a maximum of 6 crosses.

  • Nollij ( Nollij@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    IANAL, but this law is (probably) not currently enforceable due to (among others) Lawrence v. Texas.

    However, that was explicitly named as being on the chopping block, so at best it’s "not enforceable yet"

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