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By SEANNA ADCOX
The Associated Press
April 21, 2006

COLUMBIA — Lucy’s Love Shop employee Wanda Gillespie said she was flabbergasted that South Carolina’s Legislature is considering outlawing sex toys.

But banning the sale of sex toys is actually quite common in some Southern states.

The South Carolina bill, proposed by Republican Rep. Ralph Davenport, would make it a felony to sell devices used primarily for sexual stimulation and allow law enforcement to seize sex toys from raided businesses.

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The people who are riding us (the adult novelty industry) so hard are probably at home buying it (sex toys and novelties) on the Internet. It’s ridiculous."

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Originally posted by Ken Burch:
Proposed bumpersticker on the issue:

"You'll have to pry my dildo out of my warm, aroused hand."

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Originally posted by Michelle:
I heard on a podcast somewhere (tm) that one of the reasons a lot of sex toys are made in the shape of other things, like animals, is to get around sex toy laws.

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Originally posted by Polly Brandybuck:
How about a gun? Make a gun shaped sex toy, and promote it under the right to bear arms.

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"Though the laws don’t punish people for owning sex toys, banning their sale is a backdoor attempt to discourage their use, Mr. Lopez said."

Canadian versions of US commercials are far more racy in showing skin and such. The programming and the language is also far more explicit on the CBC than any US broadcast network would dare, including the showing of the word fuck on broadcast TV.

Prime example. The Jello commercial with that 'wiggling' theme that's either infectious or irritating depending on your taste. In Canada, an an attractive woman moves to the music in a very attention getting spectacle. In the US that same commercial shows a kid completely covered in a cow costume dancing cutely. If you saw the two ads back to back you'd see a big difference in theme and content. The music is the same though.

It simply seems that Canada is far more comfortable with sex than the Americans, at least publicly. We can probably attribute this to a number of factors not the least of which is the role that religion plays in public life in the two countries.

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How about a gun? Make a gun shaped sex toy, and promote it under the right to bear arms.

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Originally posted by koan brothers:

How about a cross? Then they could claim to be victims of the war against christianity.

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Originally posted by Michelle:
Surely not!

[/utterlyshockedbaptistgril]

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