Mississippi Outlaws Sex Toys: Vibrators Outlawed but Guns Still Mandatory in Southern State
By Jenny Corvette, published Jul 11, 2007
In a stunning legislative move, the Supreme Court of Mississippi (which consists of three men named Billy Bob and a cocker spaniel) banned the sale, advertising, or exhibiting of any three-dimensional device used primarily for the stimulation of human genitalia. The landmark decision makes sex toy possession a felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison and/or a $75 fine. Once the controversial law passed, Mississippi's governor Haley Barbour authorized several sting operations across the state to rid Mississippi of the phallic threat to southern life, a threat second only to terrorism in these dangerous and vulnerable times.
At an adult store named Good Vibrations on the east side of Jackson, several undercover policemen witnessed the sale of not one, not two, but 18 individual sex toys during lunch hour earlier this week. "Things were really buzzing at the store," commented store owner Gale McFarland from behind bars in the Jackson state prison for women. "None of us realized that the hot men in trench coats were cops. We thought they were Atlanta metrosexuals in the market for some new anal plugs. When they asked to frisk us, we just thought they were ordinary perverts," said the 61 year old grandmother of four. McFarland and her employees are eligible for parole in 2010.
Across the street in the Pleasure Plaza, Rhonda Milligan could be heard screaming at police raiding her store, "You can have my dildo when you rip it from my cold, dead, callused hands!" She was later arrested and held without bail. Fred Phillips, who was shopping for a new inflatable doll to replace his old one patched up with duct tape, witnessed Milligan clenching a 12 inch rubber sex toy, "as fiercely as a drowning woman would hold a bouy."
The Mississippi law may be rubbing people the wrong way but it's not the first of its kind in America. Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas have similar laws on the books, banning the sale and/or advertisement of sex toys. But the laws do allow a little wiggle room, according to Texas based attorney Jack Offalot.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/300619/mississippi_outlaws_sex_toys_vibrators.html?cat=17
By Jenny Corvette, published Jul 11, 2007
In a stunning legislative move, the Supreme Court of Mississippi (which consists of three men named Billy Bob and a cocker spaniel) banned the sale, advertising, or exhibiting of any three-dimensional device used primarily for the stimulation of human genitalia. The landmark decision makes sex toy possession a felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison and/or a $75 fine. Once the controversial law passed, Mississippi's governor Haley Barbour authorized several sting operations across the state to rid Mississippi of the phallic threat to southern life, a threat second only to terrorism in these dangerous and vulnerable times.
At an adult store named Good Vibrations on the east side of Jackson, several undercover policemen witnessed the sale of not one, not two, but 18 individual sex toys during lunch hour earlier this week. "Things were really buzzing at the store," commented store owner Gale McFarland from behind bars in the Jackson state prison for women. "None of us realized that the hot men in trench coats were cops. We thought they were Atlanta metrosexuals in the market for some new anal plugs. When they asked to frisk us, we just thought they were ordinary perverts," said the 61 year old grandmother of four. McFarland and her employees are eligible for parole in 2010.
Across the street in the Pleasure Plaza, Rhonda Milligan could be heard screaming at police raiding her store, "You can have my dildo when you rip it from my cold, dead, callused hands!" She was later arrested and held without bail. Fred Phillips, who was shopping for a new inflatable doll to replace his old one patched up with duct tape, witnessed Milligan clenching a 12 inch rubber sex toy, "as fiercely as a drowning woman would hold a bouy."
The Mississippi law may be rubbing people the wrong way but it's not the first of its kind in America. Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas have similar laws on the books, banning the sale and/or advertisement of sex toys. But the laws do allow a little wiggle room, according to Texas based attorney Jack Offalot.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/300619/mississippi_outlaws_sex_toys_vibrators.html?cat=17
In some parts of N.O. they dont even bother to do that...
So I guess the black-out on the windows are not only for the privacy of the consumer...
