A court has upheld a ban on selling adult toys in Alabama.  Quick note: I’m trying to avoid using a three letter word that begins with "s" and ends with "x" because you don’t want to know what kind of links I get when I use it. Here’s the story from Boing Boing:

In a unanimous opinion, a
three-judge panel for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an
Alabama statute banning the commercial distribution of sex toys, saying
that there is no fundamental right to privacy raised by the plaintiff’s
case against the law.

According to the statute, it is ‘unlawful for any
person to knowingly distribute any obscene material or any device
designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human
genital organs.’

Damnit, I ended up using the word anyway.  More about this story can be found at the American Constitutional Society blog.  The ACS blog points out that the law doesn’t prohibit the possession or use of these devices. My question for the obviously repressed leaders of Alabama is this: how do you discern the difference between a neck massager and a vibrator?