So for all of y’all who were unaware, up until a few days ago, it was completely and utterly illegal to buy or sell vibrators (or other sex toys) in the great state of Texas.

Here’s the skinny:

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling in a case originally filed in federal court in Austin, found that the ban in the Texas penal code on selling or promoting obscene devices violates the right to privacy under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. “Whatever one might think or believe about the use of these devices, government interference with their personal and private use violates the Constitution,” said the opinion in the case considered by a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based court.

The opinion relied heavily on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 decision in Lawrence and Garner v. Texas, which struck down a Texas law prohibiting private consensual sex among members of the same sex. That case established a broad constitutional right to sexual privacy.

As a native Coloradan, I never even knew about the CO law anti-vibes, but apparently it was struck down relatively recently…and a few more states have similar laws still on the books.  So it seems this is one small step for sex toys, but there are several more to be taken.

Read the full story here 

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