Friday night was a rough night for us with car issues and babysitting issues. I had scheduled a party for 7pm 1 45 minutes away according to mapquest. (NYC RUSH HOUR!!) The party actually came from my fiance's (Prince) friend.
When it kept getting later and later, we just didn't know what we were going to do. So, we came up with the brilliant idea that Prince should go and do the party by himself. AND HE DID! I am so proud to say that the party is still open right now with $300 in sales. (Not bad for a first solo party!) BUT, he recruited a TEAM. Yeah, not a single recruit, but a recruit with 2 people to sign up under her! Their applications aren't in yet, so it's not set in stone. But he's confident and has been talking to this person about the business for a little while now. SOOOO PROUD! That's my boy, the team builder!! Let's work on the sales now Prince!! ;) Love you!!!
BTW, that's him up there at Magic Clothing Expo in Las Vegas in August. He works with Pepsi Clothing. He also owns Legacy Unlimited Entertainment and Noche Promotions. I'm rebuilding his site right now and desperately need to work on it.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
So Proud of my fiance, Prince! Did a Pleasure Party all by himself!!
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Party Plan Company Website
Well, I finished sooner than I thought! My new website all about becoming a sex toy party consultant is DONE. Well, I'll be tweaking it for probably another week. But please take a look and give me some feedback. I would love to know how you like it.
Thanks! Click the link below!
www.partyplancompany.com
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
NEWS: Adult Bookstore Sex Toy Raid in MS
Incidences like this make me happy I live in the Northeast!! "Garbage bag loads of sex toys"!! OMG!! This is a disgrace. Then they BURN them?!? Is this 2008? Or 1908? In 2008 we know what burning jelly and silicone can do for the environment. All because some people like to get a little pleasure. I'm curious to know what their punishment will be. Don't tell me jailtime, because that would be really sad. I'll be on the lookout to find out. No courtdate was mentioned. Jackson police were chasing down a different kind of criminal today. Officers conducted a raid on a local adult bookstore, looking for illegal sex toys.They found enough evidence to make two arrests. Surprisingly, they re-arrested someone recently in custody for the same crime. Jackson police vice officers hauled out garbage bag loads of sex toys found during an investigation at the adult video and book store on mcdowell road. Sergeant William Gladney says, "It's just an undercover sting we periodically check the adult entertainment here in the city of Jackson make sure theyr'e complying with the adult entertainment ordinances, and this is a state statue." Multiple violations in this case, and it's not the first time. In july officers conducted a similar raid, confiscating sex toys. They've raided the place at least three times in the past two years. This time, it was a tip from the public that led them back. Gladney, "We got a complaint from a citizen that heard it on the radio we sent an undercover officer and made a purchase." Police arrested James Salters who holds the bookstore license, and charged him with two counts of selling sex toys. He was also wanted on an outstanding warrant for domestic violence. His cashier, Jason Paige was also charged with selling a sex toy, and was vocal in his opinion of the law. Paige says, "They don't leave here and go rape nobody, they don't leave here and go rob banks." officers say they weren't able to arrest James Salters during their last raid because he wasn't present. They say if he breaks the law again, they'll just have to come back. Officers say they usually just burn all the sex toys they confiscate during the raids.
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Jackson, MI 10/24/07
www.wlbt.com
By David Kenney
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
A Special Project - To Be Completed by the End of the WEEK!
I've been a little pre-occupied with a special project that I've been working on. It's a brand new website that will help me get the Directors I need to advance and remain un-bypassable!! (Meaning, no one in my downline can 'bypass' me which would lower the commission for their leg....MLM tech talk. LOL)
So stay tuned, when it's ready, I'll announce the website/websites!! For those of you who read this that are interested in signing up to become a Pleasure Party consultant, you'll want to definitely check this site out when it's finished. :)
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Cindy Rousselle's Pleasure Party Video
I'm so proud of one of my recruits, Cindy Rousselle. She had made this video as a project and it came out AWESOME!! Check out her website (which she also designed herself) www.atozpleasures.com
Thursday, October 18, 2007
NEWS: Sex once a day... on doctors orders!
I knew it!! Men don't have to 'hold off' for a while so they can build up a good load 'o sperm. So, ladies...if you are trying to get pregnant, I know this might be rough for some of you, but get him to come more!
OK, interesting thought: Have you ever noticed how testicles are comparable to breasts? They each have two. They both produce liquids essential to babies. And the more you release the liquids, the more you make! Oh and the older you get the more they sag!
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Sex once a day... on doctors orders!
Men's Health News
Published: Wednesday, 17-Oct-2007
The latest research into male fertility has the news all men want to hear - the more sex a man has the more fertile he becomes - at least in some cases!
A study by Australian researchers of men attending a fertility clinic has revealed that the genetic defects in their sperm fell substantially after they were encouraged to have sex each day.
The researchers from Sydney University have found that frequent sexual activity improves the genetic quality of sperm which may help some couples conceive.
It seems around a fifth of men have sperm with significant DNA damage.
It is quite common for fertility specialists to advise men trying for a baby to abstain from sexual activity for two to three days, because it boosts the number of sperm they produce.
However this latest finding suggests that men who have healthy sperm counts but poor quality sperm can improve the genetic material in the cells by engaging in sex more often.
Sperm which are genetically damaged can reduce the chances of a sperm fertilising an egg, and can also lead to the formation of an embryo that fails to implant properly or is miscarried.
For the study Dr. David Greening, a fertility specialist at Sydney IVF, studied 42 men whose sperm had high levels of genetic damage.
All of the men were in partnerships where the couples had a history of recurrent miscarriage or failed IVF treatment.
Tests taken after three days of sexual abstinence revealed 30.8% genetic damage in the men's sperm.
The men were then told to engage in sexual activity daily for a week and were tested again.
While tests showed that their sperm counts fell by nearly one third, genetic damage also fell, on average by 12.8%, in 37 of the men.
Tests on the remaining five men showed their sperm had slightly increased genetic damage.
Dr. Greening says he believes the longer sperm are held in the tube that leads from the testicles, the more genetic damage they accumulate from free radicals circulating in the body.
Greening says he is convinced that ejaculating more frequently, improves sperm DNA damage in most men by a 'decent amount'.
Other experts agree and say ejaculating every day prevents the sperm being in the reproductive tract for too long, so they are exposed to less damage and this could mean better quality sperm.
The Sydney University team presented their research this week at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine conference.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
NEWS: 'Lars' movie shines light on RealDolls
I promise...last time on this subject of robot/dolls/love. :)
Found this article just now.
'Lars' movie shines light on RealDolls
By SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer October 17, 2007
SAN MARCOS, Calif. - A dozen headless female bodies hang from industrial metal hooks in the center of the room. To the left are a table of plastic faces, awaiting makeup. To the right, a stack of silicone molds ready for the next order of life-sized love toys.
Normally reserved for private play, these high-end, anatomically correct dolls are getting big-screen exposure with the recent release of "Lars and the Real Girl," an offbeat, surprisingly chaste comedy about a lonely introvert (Ryan Gosling) and Bianca, the silicone object of his affection.
Bianca, a freckle-nosed brunette, was born just east of San Diego at Abyss Creations. The 11-year-old company that makes RealDolls will ship 400 dolls to the U.S. and abroad this year — at upward of $6,500 each.
RealDolls can be actresses, lovers, photo subjects or companions. Customers can choose from 10 body types, 16 faces and 17 hairstyles to create their dream girl. They specify skin tone, hair and eye color, makeup palette and nail-polish shade. The dolls have interchangeable faces ($500 each), so with the pull of some Velcro and the flip of a wig, she's like a whole new gal.
They're made from soft silicone that takes two days to cure to a somewhat flesh-like feel. With jointed skeletons they're entirely poseable — "They move in the same places people move," company spokeswoman Bronwen Keller says — but they can't stand up on their own. They range in height from 4'10" to 5'7" and weigh 75 to 115 pounds. There is also a male doll, "Charlie," who stands 5'8" and weighs 130 pounds.
The artists who spend about 80 hours crafting each doll all started out in the Halloween industry, says creative director and chief executive officer Matt Krivicke, 36. Before working with RealDoll, he made Halloween masks. (O.J. Simpson was his most popular.)
For many doll owners, and for Gosling's character in the film, the dolls are more like companions, each with her own personality and presence.
"She looks like a person," says Rob McKay, 55, a writer who owns two dolls, Lily and Eden. "Even though she's not a breathing person, psychologically you feel like someone is with you. They're like a balm for loneliness or aloneness."
McKay and other doll owners, who share their stories and photos online at DollForum.com, compare the life-size ladies to "teddy bears for adults."
"That's where she's done the most good, reducing the feeling of solitude," McKay says, adding that he prefers intimacy with a live partner but hasn't had a girlfriend since 2001. "Just having her there to hug or just to have somebody close by, even though it's not, obviously, a warm body."
A member of DollForum.com who goes by the name Doll Luvr says his doll "is far more than just an expensive sex toy."
"She sleeps with me, watches TV with me, sits at the table and has coffee with me," he writes. "Just having a female shape laying next to me in bed is very comforting."
Gosling's character gets emotional, but never physical, with Bianca. But whereas Lars is delusional and believes the doll is alive, most doll owners "know where to draw the line," McKay says.
The dolls "inspire imagination," he says. "You put what you think into the doll, so you're projecting part of yourself onto this inanimate creature and making her seem more lifelike."
Stacy Leigh, 36, a married photographer who lives in New York, uses her two RealDolls as photo subjects. Both are petite and "could fit in all my clothing, same shoe size and everything," she says, noting that one doll has a more curvaceous figure. ("The one with the big boobs is the sluttier of the two," she says.) Leigh owns six faces and more than 30 wigs and divides her time between shooting real models and shooting the dolls. She staunchly defends her fellow doll owners.
"Most guys just need it because they just want to feel somebody in the bed next to them, even though it's not a real person," she says. "I feel bad for those guys."
Doll owners tend to be "older men with disposable income," Keller says, adding that the dolls are also popular with couples and artists. RealDolls have been used in movies, music videos and by a forensic studies program as models in sex-crime scenarios, Keller says.
Chicago-based artist Amber Hawk Swanson had a doll made in her exact likeness as part of a multimedia art project. The 27-year-old says she didn't anticipate the relationship she would form with Amber Doll.
During the nine months it took for her doll to arrive, "I really did picture her as real," Swanson says. "Not that I imagined her walking around my house, but I just couldn't wait. I just imagined cuddling up with her."
Swanson is continuing her art project, but she now has a live romantic partner who's "thankful that I've moved past the time when I pictured my life with this doll and not with a human."
She says doll owners can identify with "Lars and the Real Girl," which she describes as "a movie starring a RealDoll that's true to the way many people interact with their dolls: in a partnership way."
Monday, October 15, 2007
"Lars and the Real Girl" - movie
After I posted about the Robot Marriage, I came across this movie the other night:
Tagline:
The search for true love begins outside the box
Plot Outline:
A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.
Now this looks funny! It's a comedy/drama. It came out on Friday, but only in limited theaters. These dolls have always fascinated me.
Creepy, but oh so fascinating!!
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Interesting, Strange and Scary - Robot Marriage
14 Oct 2007, 0018 hrs IST
Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows, according to an artificial intelligence researcher.
“My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalise marriages with robots,” David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience. Levy recently completed his PhD work on the subject of human-robot relationships.
The idea of romance between humanity and our artistic and/or mechanical creations dates back to ancient times, with the Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion falling in love with the ivory statue he made named Galatea, to which the goddess Venus eventually granted life. This notion persists in modern times. Not only has science fiction explored this idea, but 40 years ago, scientists noticed that students at times became unusually attracted to ELIZA, a computer program designed to ask questions and mimic a psychotherapist.
“There’s a trend of robots becoming more human-like in appearance and coming more in contact with humans,” Levy said. “At first robots were used impersonally, in factories where they helped build automobiles, for instance. Then they were used in offices to deliver mail, or to show visitors around museums, or in homes as vacuum cleaners, such as with the Roomba. Now you have robot toys, like Sony’s Aibo robot dog, or Tickle Me Elmos, or digital pets like Tamagotchis.”
In his thesis, Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners, Levy conjectures that robots will become so human-like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them. “It may sound a little weird, but it isn’t,” Levy said. “Love and sex with robots are inevitable.”
Levy argues that psychologists have identified roughly a dozen basic reasons why people fall in love, “and almost all of them could apply to human-robot relationships. For instance, one thing that prompts people to fall in love are similarities in personality and knowledge, and all of this is programmable. Another reason people are more likely to fall in love is if they know the other person likes them, and that’s programmable too.”
In 2006, Henrik Christensen, founder of the European Robotics Research Network, predicted that people will be having sex with robots within five years, and Levy thinks that’s quite likely. There are companies that already sell realistic sex dolls, “and it’s just a matter of adding some electronics to them to add some vibration,” he said, or endowing the robots with a few audio responses. As software becomes more advanced and the relationship between humans and robots becomes more personal, marriage could result. “The question is not if this will happen, but when,” Levy said. “I am convinced the answer is much earlier than you think.”
The possibility of sex with robots could prove a mixed bag for humanity. For instance, robot sex could provide an outlet for criminal sexual urges. “If you have paedophiles and you let them use a robotic child, will that reduce the incidence of them abusing real children, or will it increase it?” roboticist Ronald Arkin at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta asked. “I don’t think anyone has the answers for that yet-that’s where future research needs to be done.”
Arkin noted that “if we allow robots to become a part of everyday life and bond with them, we’ll have to ask questions about what’s going to happen to our social fabric. How will they change humanity and civilisation? I don’t have any answers, but I think it’s something we need to study. There’s a real potential for intimacy here, where humans become psychologically and emotionally attached to these devices in ways we wouldn’t to a vibrator.”
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What an interesting article!! It's not hard to believe, but hard to believe it could come so soon. My youngest daughter was born in 2005. She'd be 45 in 2050. Her prime!! Ahhhh! No seriously, this is what "I, Robot", "A.I." and "Robots" is all about! "Robots" was probably made to adjust the children to the future. You know, I wouldn't mind a Robot (OMG, I'm capitalizing it) to clean my home and cook me dinner. But the logical side of me is fearful of robots. They have already taken many away many human jobs. I DO consider Metrocard and ATM machines robots. And to imagine robots taking over the planet and eliminating the human race. VERY possible!
Back to the point though... Robot SEX. Or even stranger, Robot Marriage. So, do you go on a Honeymoon together? Do you hold a funeral should the robot crash and become unfunctionable? How much would it cost to upgrade your husband? Would your robot-husband's fingers be cold? Ehhhhh...I'll stop here.
Question: Will these robots still be banned in Alabama??
Friday, October 12, 2007
Interesting Toy #1 - Thru-Hole Butt Plugs
RECEIVED VIA EMAIL:
We're at it again, inventing something new & totally unique. Our brand new Thru-Hole Butt Plugs are a butt plug that serves a dual purpose. For those that have wanted a butt plug with a hole through the center for anything their imagination can dream up, it's here. And at the same time, for those who have been wanting an adapter for their shower shot nozzle, here it is! An extra special feature of the butt plugs is that a shower shot nozzle fits into the center of the butt plug, serving a dual purpose. It's like getting two toys in one. The hole at the top and the bottom of the plugs are different sizes, so the shower nozzle will stop about half way and not slide all the way through. The butt plugs come in three different diameters. 1 1/2", 2" and 2 1/2". They expertly engineered from solid aerospace grade 6061 billet aluminum. Available in Brushed or Polished finish.
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Sometimes in the business we, as consultants, get strange calls or emails. (I'll save the call about the guy that wanted a toy that simulates getting kicked in the balls for another post) Now, this was kind of a email, targeting sex toy retailers to sell their product. I did check out their website www.hollywoodwoodchrome.com and they certainly have quite a list of 'interesting toys'. No prices though. Too bad, because I could've featured them as an Expensive Toys post. But instead I started an Interesting Toy label.
OK, so back to the point. A hole through the butt plug "for whatever your imagination can dream up". OK, all you imaginative people!!!! Tell me what your crazy minds can dream up for this "thru-hole" toy right here. (just click "Comments" below to enter your thoughts)
Thursday, October 11, 2007
NEWS: Sue Johanson will be on David Letterman tonight!!
Sue Johanson will be on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman tonight! Be sure to check out this crazy old lady who loves to talk frankly about sex. :)
I'll be at a party. I don't have Tivo/DVR or whatever it is...so friends, keep me updated!
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
NEWS: Sex Toy Party Draws Students
Vox promotes sex awareness
By: MaryAnn Barone, Staff Writer
Daily Tar Heel
Issue date: 10/10/07 Section: University
Senior Maureen Stutzman reacts to a Jeopardy! question during a sex toy party Tuesday night. The Hawaiian-themed event, held by Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood, helped promote discussion of sexual health issues.
When students walked into Murphey Hall on Tuesday night, they were handed goody bags of colored condoms, lubricant and candy.
Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood hosted a sex toy party that about 50 students attended.
The theme of the event was Hawaiian, with the tag line on Facebook: "Get lei'd with Vox."
"It's educational but also fun," said Laura Andrews, a member of Vox.
This is the first time Vox has put on such an event. Andrews said the group planned the party to have fun but also to get students to discuss sexual health issues.
"We thought it would be a really fun event to get some progressive people together," she said.
Students who attended Tuesday's event played a game of Jeopardy!, with questions based on sexually transmitted infections and abortion facts.
They were divided into teams of four, which students signed up for when they walked in. The winning team from each of the two rounds received prizes.
A raffle for a German Fun Factory vibrator, valued at $80, was held at the event with tickets selling for $1. [We carry Fun Factory!]
"I want a pretty pink vibrator," Amanda Veazey, a junior anthropology major, said before the raffle.
Vox members also provided free pizza and additional prizes as incentives for attendees.
About five men attended the party.
"I wanted to bring some male support," said David Greenslade, a senior biology major.
Andrews said she hopes people will be influenced by the information they learned from the event.
"It's general facts but also some activism with it," she said.
Laura Ciompi, another member of Vox, said that though the issue of women's sexuality is more open on college campuses because they're usually a more liberal atmosphere, the information from the event can be applied after graduation.
"Just because we are in college now doesn't mean we will be here forever," Ciompi said.
The group, whose name comes from the Latin word for voice, is aimed at this college generation's abortion-rights supporters.
Vox is cropping up on many college campuses across the country. But members said that it has grown especially in North Carolina.
There are Vox programs at UNC-Chapel Hill, as well as at N.C. State University, N. C. Central University, UNC-Wilmington and UNC-Greensboro.
In the past, Vox has put on events such as sex awareness campaigns, safer sex campaigns and book readings.
Later this year, the group will have a birth control campaign to try to decrease birth control prices because they have increased in the past year.
Katelyn Bryant-Comstock, co-chairwoman of Vox, said that the purpose of these events also was to educate campus.
Money raised from the raffle at the event will fund future Vox programs.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
NEWS: Talk about sex, ladies! It’s good for your health
Sex therapist Ian Kerner shares the secrets to talking about sex
Ladies, think twice before you decide to hold back your sexual frustrations from your partner. It’s not only bad for your relationship, it could also be harmful to your health, according to recent studies.
Last week, the “New York Times” reported that it’s not what we fight about that makes the difference, but rather how we fight, and how those ways of arguing affect men and women differently. The way you fight can have just as big a toll on your health as other factors such as diet, exercise and cholesterol.
Confrontation naturally triggers the brain’s “fight or flight response.” Many men respond by fighting, and it’s been shown that this confrontational approach to arguing raises heart rate, increases blood pressure and plays a role in stress and heart disease. But, interestingly, the opposite reaction, flight, can be just as harmful, if not worse, to women: It leads to self-silencing, and this bottling-up of emotions leads to stress, anxiety, depression and a cascade of unhealthy behaviors.
So women, don’t go to sleep on a sex issue. Talk about it. I know that’s easier said than done. Just recently a female patient of mine recounted the harrowing experience of trying to talk to her boyfriend about his lovemaking skills: “It was like a scene out of ‘Taxi Driver.’ He gave me this Robert De Niro ‘you talking to me’ look, and then pointed his finger in my face. I swear I thought he was going to off me!”
How to talk about sex with your man
When it comes to communicating about sex, there’s often a gap between what we want to say and how we end up saying it, and even the gentlest of words can come off as confrontational. Criticism, expressed or perceived harshly, is the sexual kiss of death. So if you can, try to express your desires as a positive turn-on rather than a negative turn-off. Instead of telling him, “You don’t know anything about foreplay or how to please a woman,” tell him that you had a sexy dream about him last night — trust me, he’ll want to know more — and then describe the foreplay you’d like as though it was something he was doing in your dream.
Also, anthropologists have long observed that women are “face-to-face” communicators, while men do so “side-by-side.” This means that women are much more comfortable with direct eye contact, which probably has a lot to do with the female history of nursing, cuddling and generally fawning over their infants all the while staring lovingly into those big baby eyes.
Men, on the other hand, find direct eye contact extremely confrontational. As Helen Fisher wrote in her remarkable book, “Why We Love,” “this response probably stems from men’s ancestry. For many millennia men faced their enemies; they sat or walked sat by side as they hunted game with their friends.” So unless you want your words to send him into battle, use evolution to your advantage and have a sex talk while taking a walk or drive, or shopping or watching TV.
But if you’ve ever sent a guy out on even the simplest of errands, you know that words are not enough. Not only do you need to tell him (if you’re shy about vocalizing, try telling him one morning that you had a sexy dream about him and then describe what you want him to do as though it happened in the dream), but you also need to show him, like by placing your hand over his and letting your fingers do the walking — you need to reinforce it with positive feedback.
The main thing is not to go to bed on that sex issue. It’s not good for your relationship, or your health!
Ian Kerner is the author of several books, including “She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman.” Learn more at IanKerner.com.
Monday, October 8, 2007
I Don't Smoke Anymore
It's true. I don't smoke anymore. I am officially a non-smoker. Cigarettes are no longer my master. My last cigarette was around Friday/Saturday overnight at 2am-ish. I woke up to a horrible hangover after a Birthday party at a club and didn't smoke all day. That was Saturday. On Saturday, I went to a Traveling Vineyard party at 6pm. Imagine going to a wine tasting while hungover from Vodka. hahaha! Then Sunday at around 1pm, the cravings really started. I turned a little crazy with strange body movements and a psychotic sense of logic. By 8pm I had the shakes. Mind you, I started smoking 15 years ago (quitting with both pregnancies) and last week was smoking a pack a day. The last pack I bought was Tuesday night. It cost me $7.50!! From Tuesday to Friday I was bumming off Prince. I can't believe I paid $7.50 for a pack of Winstons. I say enough is enough. I'd rather put that money in the savings for a house!! So, here I am...Monday morning. I woke up with some unfamiliar energy this morning at 8am. Still craving...it's time to write on my hand again, since "I DON'T SMOKE ANYMORE" is wearing off. I REFUSE to be a slave to Winstons anymore. What's the point!!?! So, to occupy my thoughts and time now instead of smoking is...... guess??...... A DIET!! Haha...imagine that. Replacing smoking with a diet. I'm at my heaviest in a long time. I'm be doing a low-calorie, low-fat diet along with taking Alli. If I'm going to quit smoking cold turkey, then I could diet too. :) So now, when I have thoughts about cigarettes OR food...I can remember that I don't smoke anymore and I'm on a diet. So, what do I do now?? CLEAN!!! Yes, the house will be more organized and neater and my business will EXPLODE!!
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Oklahoma Judge Still to Serve 4 Years for Using Penis Pump in Court.
From Gay City News
Sex Toy Stories
LMAO @ the myspace situation
Seriously, I don't know whether to laugh or be mad. I think I'll choose to laugh. hahahaha. So, my myspace page got deleted for the second time, I was happy that I was able to take the same URL. But oh no!! Guess what? Someone went and registered it themselves... take a look! www.myspace.com/tristatepleasure.
I mean seriously...what's going on here? Because not only is that taken now, but so is my old URL, (which is the same thing but an "s" at the end). Does this person, who likes to have me deleted, have pull at myspace? Either way I'm still not sweating it. Business is booming and a myspace page isn't going to destroy me. :)
Monday, October 1, 2007
NEWS - Alabama continues to ban the sale of sex toys!
Load 'em up partners! And no, not with batteries. And no, not THOSE kinds of 'illegal' bullets. PUH-LEEZE with this! I seriously can't understand the logic here. UNFAIR!!
Court leaves Ala. sex toy ban intact
By PHILLIP RAWLS, Associated Press Writer
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge to Alabama's ban on the sale of sex toys, ending a nine-year legal battle and sending a warning to store owners to clean off their shelves.
An adult-store owner had asked the justices to throw out the law as an unconstitutional intrusion into the privacy of the bedroom. But the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, leaving intact a lower court ruling that upheld the law.
Sherri Williams, owner of Pleasures stores in Huntsville and Decatur, said she was disappointed, but plans to sue again on First Amendment free speech grounds.
"My motto has been they are going to have to pry this vibrator from my cold, dead hand. I refuse to give up," she said.
Alabama's anti-obscenity law, enacted in 1998, bans the distribution of "any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for anything of pecuniary value."
The law does not ban the possession of sex toys, and it doesn't regulate other items, including condoms or virility drugs. Residents may legally purchase sex toys out of state for use in Alabama, or they may buy sexual devices in Alabama that have a "bona fide medical" purpose.
Similar laws have been upheld in Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas, but struck down in Louisiana, Kansas and Colorado, said Mark Lopez, a former American Civil Liberties Union attorney in New York who worked on the Alabama case until recently.
The Alabama attorney general's office immediately notified county district attorneys, who are responsible for enforcement. The attorney general planned to ask a federal judge to lift an injunction preventing the law from being enforced.
Removing the injunction should take a couple of days, said Chris Bence, spokesman for Attorney General Troy King.
Store owners should be aware that the law takes effect once the injunction is lifted, Bence said.
Williams had asked the Supreme Court to review a decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found Alabama's law was not affected by a U.S. Supreme Court decision knocking down Texas' sodomy law.
The Texas sodomy law involved private conduct, while the Alabama law regulated commercial activity, the appeals court judges said. Public morality was an insufficient government interest in the Texas case but was sufficient in the Alabama case, they said.
Williams called the Supreme Court's decision not to review the law "further evidence of religion in politics."
"The U.S. Supreme Court said states can legislate morality," she said. "I don't feel it is fair to the people who do not agree with the morality of the Legislature."
She also predicted future court battles over which sexual devices are legal to sell as medical devices.
Lopez said adult stores may be cautious about pushing the issue of what constitutes a medical device because the law has strong penalties: Up to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine for a first offense. A second offense carries a prison sentence of one to 10 years.
