Paging Dr. Frist…
Via pesky’ (and also commented on by Thud), the legislature in Tennessee has successfully abolished poverty, provided free medical care to 100% of its citizens, guaranteed each child in its educational system at least an M.A., and is now giving away a free turkey with all the fixin’s to every family every week to help feed the less fortunate. How else could you explain their sudden fascination with ridding the state of sex toys? (Copy of the law can be found here.)
Senate Bill 3794 (House Bill 3798), legislation that would make it illegal to sell, advertise, publish or exhibit to another person “any three-dimensional device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs….� For that matter, if you offer to show someone your dildo collection—or possess a vibrator with the intent to show it to someone—you’d be violating this proposed state law. And don’t even think about wholesaling those three-dimensional sex toys.
Of course, the bill does make it perfectly legal for doctors to prescribe these devices to their patients – which leads me to believe the TN legislature might just be setting up a cushy retirement job for Dr./Senator Frist.
By the way: According to Section 1, Sub-section 39-17-921 etc. etc. look for the section next to an upper-case “C,” it’s legal to sell and buy (and, presumably, display) such devices as long as one acts in their capacity as an employee of “Any library of any public or private school, college or university in this state.” Which begs the question – does this mean that college libraries could start checking these three-dimensional devices out to their students?