Sex gadget expose on Mississippi tv news (where they're illegal)
Cory Silverberg, About.com's Sexuality editor, points to a hilarious local news segment in Mississippi titled "Adult Store Caught Selling Illegal Sex Toys."
Link to Cory Silverberg's post, and Link to the video (WMV).After hearing rumors that the “Adult Video and Books” boutique on McDowell Road, which had previously been busted for selling sex toys, was at it again, the intrepid Kandiss Crone from the 3 On Your Side “news” team decided to go undercover. Based on the secret audio recording, it sounds like she was confronted with a helpful sales person who sold her a vibrator (she chose “the purple one”). She then went back to confront an unimpressed but entirely pleasant store owner who tried to explain to Ms. Crone all the different places on your body you can use a vibrator (the one’s not prohibited by law in Mississippi).
You really have to watch the segment to believe it. I’ve watched it twice, and am left with several thoughts:
1. I love that the store is wheelchair accessible. I live in a major city and 90% of the stores here aren’t. Bravo “Adult Video and Books”.
2. How pathetic was it that they couldn’t even get the cops interested in the store? It seems like the “3 On Your Side” team are the only ones who care about this sex store selling sex toys. This begs the question; whose side are they on?
3. The “reporter” chose a vibrator that matched her sweater. Coincidence?
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I don't think that "begs the question" means what you think it means...
Why in the name of hovering christ are sex toys "illegal"?
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It's right there in the headline: Mississippi.
I have a suspicion that Wal-Mart sells an unusually high quantity of "neck massagers" in Mississippi.
I believe that because of the hovering christ is the majority of the reason why they are "illegal". Thou shalt not ram thyself with a jelly dong is one of those extra commandments.
Why in the hovering Christ is this posted in Boing Boing Gadgets?
Unless Ms. Crone does a follow-up review of the Purple Personal Pleasure Pod, I don't see the relevance.
What are it's emissions specs? Is it Mac compatible? What about DRM?
DOES IT BLEND?
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They're illegal because you can't kill people with them.
Only in America !
Where sex toys are considered a crime, and owning a gun is incouraged... sick people.
Mr. Silverberg is incorrect, IIRC. It's a bit of a fine distinction, but sex toys are not illegal there--that is, it is not illegal to possess them, only illegal for stores to sell them. I suspect it's more of a NIMBYism thing than a sexual morality thing. Of course, it's an incredibly stupid law, but this quote from the article is encouraging:
"The adult store is not a priority for our vice and narcotics officers. We will do the best we can. Citizens would rather see us using our resources to get drugs and prostitutes off our streets and work to decrease violent crime."
The police obviously have more sense than the local media.
Kandiss Crone?
What a great porn name!
Crone, n.
an ugly evil-looking or frightening old woman; a hag
A better porn name is 'Cruella stinkbottom'
It's a sad comment on US culture for so many reasons.
Why is the media so interested in this when tens of thousands of Mississipians are losing their homes to foreclosure, or can't afford health care, or are losing their jobs?
Why would a device that allows for safely giving oneself or one's significant other pleasure be illegal in the first place? Especially since Mississippi is full of phony-baloney "pray for prosperity" churches and slimy "ministers" who prey on the poor, the elderly and the stupid?
It's just the sort of anti-female law that you get with the Christian right in this country.
Anyone with the illusion that it's not about controlling women, limiting their options and choices and diminishing their place in society is simply not paying attention.
Reproductive rights rollbacks, the annhiliation of sexual education and this kind of ridiculous ban all affect women disproportionately.
If men made more use of sex toys for jerking off you'd have drive-thru sex shops.
Kandiss Crone might be a pr0n name, perhaps, but only in GILF pr0n!
Anyone have a direct link to the wmv/avi file so I can see it on Linux?
I love how the video is bookended by ads for casinos. I guess it's only OK to sin in Mississippi if the state gets its fair share.
Simplehuman, it's not really anti-female, it's just anti-fun. Pleasure is not allowed below the bible belt. Pleasure obtained in an illicit manner must always followed by commensurate punishment.
England knew what they were doing when they exported the Puritans to America. Uh, Liz? Thanks, you can have them back now.
Mississippi is freaking stupid for making sex toys illegal. I don't understand why they would be making such a big deal out of someone buying one since everyone masterbates whether they like to admit it or not. Then again, Mississippi reporters would get excited if a cow died and would probably put it on the news. MISSISSIPPI=LAME!!!!
Okay...maybe if sex toys were made legal to purchase in stores then half of the women in MS wouldn't be knocked up and living off of welfare. Jeez...has everyone lost their minds??? Shouldn't it be more important to inform people on other matters that aren't as stupid as "boing boing" toys...WTF??? Freaking bible lovers!!!!!!!!