Exqueeze me? The fuck? Is that real?
Edit: yes. Although it’s mired in legislative gobbledygook:
Sec. 43.23. OBSCENITY. (a) A person commits an offense if, knowing its content and character, he wholesale promotes or possesses with intent to wholesale promote any obscene material or obscene device.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (h), an offense under Subsection (a) is a state jail felony.
© A person commits an offense if, knowing its content and character, he:
(1) promotes or possesses with intent to promote any obscene material or obscene device; or
(2) produces, presents, or directs an obscene performance or participates in a portion thereof that is obscene or that contributes to its obscenity.
(d) Except as provided by Subsection (h), an offense under Subsection © is a Class A misdemeanor.
(e) A person who promotes or wholesale promotes obscene material or an obscene device or possesses the same with intent to promote or wholesale promote it in the course of his business is presumed to do so with knowledge of its content and character.
(f) A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.
So, women seem to be exempt (“he possesses with intent”) and it is a “performance”. Whatever that means. And it’s a misdemeanor.
But it’s real. Can have six dildos in a performance, but more than six? Oooh that’s a paddlin’.
The documentary, Dildo Diaries, explores the topic in great, and sometimes hilarious detail. I happened to see this film around 2003, at a small art cinema, with Laura Barton and Judy Wilder present. So afterwards we had a Q&A. At that time one could sell/posses a ‘representative model’ for demonstrating how to put on a condom, but it was illegal if it also vibrated. And one could sell/ possess a non-anatomically correct ‘dildo’, which could legally vibrate. But one could not sell / purchase both from the same store. There were/ are literally stores that have an interior door dividing the two types. Also, if I recall correctly, there were limits on how many one could have, and categories including ‘collectors’ for those that had more than 6, I think.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332604/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl
One mans obscenity is another man’s pleasure. I would normally say the Supreme Court will strike this down quickly, but you know where we are
Typically in legalese like this, “he” isn’t denoting only people who use that pronoun, it’s understood to apply to all people.
The law as you posted seems to be equating owning more than six “obscene devices” with an intent to sell them, or use them as part of a business, whether that actually is the intent or not. It also notes that have multiple “devices” that are the same or similar is also an offense (so having two identical or even similar sex toys even if you have fewer than six total would also be a misdemeanor).
But you can claim they are for medical or psychiatric purpose and have as many as you need:
(g) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that the person who possesses or promotes material or a device proscribed by this section does so for a bona fide medical, psychiatric, judicial, legislative, or law enforcement purpose
Typically in legalese like this, “he” isn’t denoting only people who use that pronoun, it’s understood to apply to all people.
Yeah but it’s an interesting defense. There are laws that only apply to women, aren’t there? And they dont’ use “he”. You’d lose, but it’d be an interesting case.
And the definitions section was too long to paste in, but you can get there from the link in the article.
Well, I find this law to be obscene, so I guess it’s illegal.
That law looks like it’s written so that they could arrest me for having 6 books they didn’t like. Obscene could mean anything here. It just screams “selective punishment”.
It is defined earlier in the law but it was too long and boring to paste in. It still boils down to “obscene” items, which - yeah.
you can legally own more guns than sex toys in the Lone Star State
That gives me a hell of an idea for a stage act up here in NYC
I mean, unless it’s defined elsewhere, it’s leaving an awful lot of space to interpret “obscenity”…
It is defined earlier in the statute. You can get to it through the link in the article, it goes right there.
What a waste of money and resources
I’m interested in seeing a judicial decision on whether a double ended dildo counts as one dildo or two dildos.
If you create a religion with a dildo being recognized by your dogma as official iconography, could you unlock “unlimited dildos” based upon religious freedom exceptions?
Bonus points if the religion is a sect of christanity.
“So, what are you in for?”
“Seventh dildo.”
Finally found a quest I’m absolutely sure my D&D group has NEVER played before.
This was one of the laws broken in Half As Interesting’s “Crime Spree,” which became the pilot of their series “Jet Lag: The Game.”
If you have Nebula, it’s worth a watch.
Does Texas employ door-to-door dildo inspectors?
Is there a state office of dildo regulations, wieghts, and measures?
Small government, uh?
They’re protecting the children’s innocence!
Will there be an official Office of Dildo Inspections? With Dildo Inspectors making rounds, carefully checking every household for staying within their allotted number of items? Will the billboards aside the vast highways advertise the government hotline for anonymous reporting of infractions?
And if not, well, they’re clearly cowards. If you’re going to pass a law like that, you have to go all the way!
Seriously though, I sometimes wonder how this period of time will be described in history books 50 years from now.
A Texas jobs program! You too can have a bright future as a state dildo inspector!
If they would prevent people and companies to own more than six houses or flazs, that would make way more sense.
In Texas, owning more dildos than guns is a crime. Probably.
They probably have some that are dual purpose.
Walmart has sex toys?
I have never seen one in walmart in my entire life.
It’s always en vogue to report on every batshit-crazy bill filed by Republicans in the Texas legislature, and while there’s genuinely some terrible legislation that gets passed, the Texas Legislature is where bills go to die, and this will definitely be one that dies. This bill will never get out of committee, and this headline is a lie.
It’s not a lie, though? The six dildos thing is absolutely a real law, and someone has introduced a bill to ban sex toys in drug stores which would probably include Walmart.
It’s perhaps somewhat misleading, since this apparently has no chance of passing, but it isn’t a lie.
You know, studies show that keeping a dildo inside the house is more dangerous than a loaded gun. That’s why I own 10 guns, in case some maniac tries to sneak in a dildo.
Most likely snuck one in whilst you were typing. You need to be more vigilant.
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what in the Texas fuck are those anal retentive cucks smoking down there?!
Of course it’s possible to own more than 6 assault rifles, right?
Only if you compromise and get the assault rifles without dildo attachments. Unacceptable to me, that’s why I don’t live in Texas.
Not if you get the wrong type of pleasure out of those rifles I guess…
Suzie no! Don’t put the rife there!
