Lingerie Store Loses Challenge to Restrictive Law

[mongo]

Lingerie Store Loses Challenge to Restrictive Law

FOLSOM, Calif. - A Sacramento Superior Court Judge has ruled that a Folsom, California ordinance restricting the sale of sex toys does not violate a business owner's First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

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A November, 2004, emergency ordinance, the story continued, was passed by the city shortly before Ms. Teaz opened its doors, transparently targeting the store. The ordinance, which prohibited the sale of explicit items such as bondage paraphernalia, as well as requiring blinders on displays of adult magazines, was made permanent in January 2005. Although the city never actually cited the store, Downing wrote, the owners brought suit because they felt harassed by the license approval process.

The report continued by saying that Dufour's attorney, Greg Garrison, argued that the city's ordinance was vague and contradictory. For example, said Garrison, the ordinance prohibits "devices with non-sex-related utility being marketed ... in a manner promoting sexual or sadomasochistic uses."

Garrison said that language unfairly allows Target or Wal-Mart, for instance, to sell toy handcuffs, while similar handcuffs could not be sold at Ms. Teaz, because, in that context, they would be marketed for their "sexual utility."

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This seems to be the newest tatic -- going after toys rather than movies. But I have to admit I'm suprised to see it happening in California.

[SoCalDem]

1. Not surprising. at all

people who buy these things probably enjoy them in their own homes, but they do not dare stand up and fight for them staying "legal"..

People who are "righteously outraged", have "god" on their side and their "care about the chillllllldren" on their side, so they holler from the rooftops.

the chirping sound of crickets on the "other side" tells politicians they better side with the fundies on this one..

[benburch]

2. I was involved in such a fight here in Illinois.

The state representative who was pushing the law actually tried to claim that people were buying $40 sex toys, using them, and then discarding them in the bushes along the road where children would find and play with them!

It got into a shouting match between her and me on WLS-AM one day.

[gkhouston]

3. LOL

kids playing with discard sex toys. :rofl:

Geez, I'd be far more worried about my kid picking up a discarded weapon from a crime. That, at least, seems plausible.

[BR_Parkway]

13. It could happen, just like the animals could find them

[mongo]

15. LOL!

Thanks, I needed that!

[mongo]

8. We have to be real careful about what goes into our trash

people and kids do go through our trash. So, no stipped magazines, no catalogs, nothing explicit goes into the trash.

I've never seen someone throw a sex toy in the bushes, but occasionally I do get customers who just want the DVD and litter the parking lot with packaging. I have a trash can right in my foyer, and several customers that give me their packaging at the register.

Man, I watch my parking lot like a hawk.

[meganmonkey]

4. Shit, I'd stand up and fight for my Hitachi Magic Wand

if someone tried to take it away.

[benburch]

6. Best sex toy ever.

We've worn out two in seven years.

[meganmonkey]

7. Don't I know it!

Whoooo-eeeee!

:)

[mongo]

9. More and more companies are making attachments now

Some really nice silicone attachments too.

[Xithras]

11. It has attachments?

Don't tell my wife!

[mongo]

12. ..

[Xithras]

16. Oh god...

:rofl:

I had no idea.

[kenny blankenship]

5. Rename the city: Fulsome, CA

[Xithras]

10. No surprise, Folsom is in freeperland.

California is only liberal along the coasts, and it becomes progressively redder as you go east. Folsom is mostly the home of the wealthy and upscalers from Sacramento and retired Bay Area fuddy duddies. IIRC, they actually had to change the election laws because the freepers refused to pass any bond measures for the schools there, even though the ceilings on their schools were LITERALLY caving in (the general opinion was "Not My Kids. Not My Problem"). There's been an influx of more liberal people over the past decade, but most of the leadership is still very freeperish. This is the same area that consistently sends John Doolittle and Dan Lungren to congress...and both are raging reichwingers.

[Rainbowreflect]

14. Those who have never had great sex don't want any one else to.

Leave my toys alone!