Lady Sascha, Cocktease Extraordinaire

Today Lady Sascha was appalled to read an article about the attempt to reinstate the ban on the sale of sex toys in Texas. It seems that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott feels they are “obscene”.

AUSTIN, TX — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has some serious problems with human orgasm – or such appears to be the case given his relentless campaign to reinstate a ban on the sale or marketing of sex toys. Fortunately for the sexually healthy citizens of his state, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has told him “no.”

Abbott had appealed to the very court that had struck down the Texas law in February, stating that denying citizens the right to purchase or sell sexual devices was a violation of their right to privacy. Today’s ruling uphold the February decision and denied Abbott a hearing by the full panel of judges, as he had requested. Instead, the court suggested that any further appeal should be directed toward the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tom Kelley, a representative for Abbott, told the press that he was uncertain as to whether there would be a further appeal.

During 2004, the owners of Dreamer’s, Le Rouge Boutique, and Adam & Eve had sued in federal court to overturn the previous law, which made it illegal to sell or “promote obscene devices.” Although their case was initially dismissed by a federal judge who claimed the right to publicly advertise such items was not guaranteed by the Constitution, the companies successfully appealed the ban in February, when it was decided that the law violated 14th Amendment guarantees.

I think we are not seeing the forest here, people.
I tell you what I think is obscene. I think the fact that our civilization sees nothing wrong with filling our eyes and ears at every chance with violence, yet sex, a natural, healthy function of natural, healthy people is considered obscene.
Both real guns and toy guns are sold at Walmart, and dildoes are not. Movies where people kill each other are open to all but the youngest child, and movies where people have sex are strictly regulated.
In fact, sex is considered “obscene” by so many parents, that they neglect to teach their children about it, but it’s ok for Johnny to be playing “Grand Theft Auto” or “Angel Three” in his room all night. As a parent, I’d personally be much more worried about that, than Johnny looking at porn and rubbing one out.
I could belabor the point with the fact that, due to parents being afraid to talk to their children about such an “obscene” topic, 1 pregnancy in 10 is to a teenager, or that one child in four in the United States (supposedly the greatest country in the world, or at least that’s what they told Me, growing up) lives below the poverty line, yet we have enough money to go blow up other people’s children half-way across the world. But I won’t…
This is not a rant for gun control, by the way. I grew up with guns, am an excellent marksman, and I don’t think guns should be outlawed.
Rather it is a diatribe against our values, and our judgments as a nation, on what we consider to be ok for human consumption, and what is not.
I do not feel that I was very eloquent in my post today. There is so much emotion in me concerning this dilemma, this paradox, even, that I find it hard to express everything I feel.
But I do hope that I gave someone food for thought over our views of violence versus sex.
Sascha