Can you hear the buzz in Texas?

Now that a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has overturned a Texas law from the 70s that makes it a crime to promote or sell sex toys in the state, there must be buzzing toys going off all over Texas! With all the problems in the US and around the world to get upset about, why does the government insist on poking its collective nose in our sex lives?

“Whatever one might think or believe about the use of these [sex toy] devices,” Justice Thomas M. Reavley wrote in the 5th Circuit opinion, “government interference with their personal and private use violates the Constitution.

Finally, a judge with a brain in his head.

Part of the ruling says

Just as in Lawrence, the state here wants to use its law to enforce a public moral code by restricting private intimate conduct,” the ruling continued. “This case is not about public sex. It is not about controlling commerce in sex. It is about controlling what people do in the privacy of their own homes because the state is morally opposed to a certain type of of consensual private intimate conduct.

The state government is now deciding whether to appeal the decision to the full board.

Now really, am I hurting the morality of the nation if in the privacy of my own bedroom I use a vibrator? We elect married politicians to make laws that affect both married and single people. Sex is only allowed if you have that piece of paper, otherwise you’re affecting the morality of the nation if you desire sexual gratification. In Texas they can justify worshiping the almighty gun but it’s not ok to be naked or to have sex using a toy. What a society!

I can see it now.. travel to Texas and as you cross the state line you must buy a gun and turn in your sex toys at the border. This is so stupid and it makes you wonder about the sanity of it all.