{"id":5641,"date":"2009-01-12T02:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2010-12-10T03:38:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T08:38:45","slug":"the-texas-dildo-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/01\/12\/the-texas-dildo-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Texas Dildo War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 13th, 2008, a Texas federal appeals court ruled that the prohibition against selling dildos and fake vaginas violated the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Such sex toys were illegal in Texas until early last year. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2185623\/entry\/2185627\/nav\/ais\/\" target=\"_blank\">a Slate article<\/a>, they are still illegal in three other states: Virginia, Mississippi, and Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t congratulate or castigate Texas just yet.\u00a0 The state Attorney General wants the court to reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/blogs\/video\/78837\/the_dildo_war_in_texas_is_still_not_over\/\" target=\"_blank\">an entertaining 11-minute discussion<\/a> of the dildo debates in Texas (it&#8217;s a must watch):<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GaUl6x1YXpg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 13th, 2008, a Texas federal appeals court ruled that the prohibition against selling dildos and fake vaginas violated the 14th Amendment. That&#8217;s right. Such sex toys were illegal in Texas until early last year. According to a Slate article, they are still illegal in three other states: Virginia, Mississippi, and Alabama. But don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,120],"class_list":["post-5641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5641"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30459,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions\/30459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}