• @Zugyuk
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    110 minutes ago

    So this means that Texas dildo inspector will be a job in the future. Just wow

    • TheRealKuni
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      82 hours ago

      This was one of the laws broken in Half As Interesting’s “Crime Spree,” which became the pilot of their series “Jet Lag: The Game.”

      If you have Nebula, it’s worth a watch.

  • filtoid
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    132 hours ago

    One for each day of the week except God’s day, as He said “on the seventh day you must [give it a] rest”

  • @testfactor
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    112 hours ago

    I don’t agree, but I’ve also literally never seen a sex toy for sale in Walmart. Like, is that a thing?

    • @glitchdx
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      71 hour ago

      look near the condoms. You’ll find some really basic and boring ones.

  • IninewCrow
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    854 hours ago

    Always love how republicans and conservatives are constantly so preoccupied with sex, sex, sex all the time and in ever more imaginative and obscure ways.

    I now associate their religious beliefs to sex, Jesus, sex, guns, sex, the American flag and sex.

    • @Soup
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      435 minutes ago

      “The government needs to stay out of people’s lives! Unless it’s the private activities of people I find icky, then they should control the hell out of them!”

      • IninewCrow
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        233 minutes ago

        Modern conservative mentality … “Everyone should suffer and be sacrificed for my benefit, in this life and the next!”

        … actually, it’s always been like that,

    • @Zachariah
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      394 hours ago

      Did you say “Jesus sex”?

    • Optional
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      304 hours ago

      Not healthy sex - fucked up power-games sex.

      • IninewCrow
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        104 hours ago

        … so S&M and BDSM? … the power of the Lord, with a ball strap to your mouth.

        • @blackbelt352
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          102 hours ago

          Consent is the cornerstone of BDSM and ideally any kind of power exchange is discussed beforehand and freely agreed upon by all parties involved.

        • Sibbo
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          I think they mean the “You want the job, but not the dick? That’s not how this works.” kind of sex.

    • @[email protected]
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      133 hours ago

      So surprisingly a couple things have actually happened. Renewables are still showing explosive growth, it helped stave off as many rolling blackouts this summer. Also, they finally agreed to tie into the national grid.

      Now, did they actually winterize and help prevent what happened a few years ago? Who knows, we haven’t been told shit so probably not.

      • @[email protected]
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        83 hours ago

        Well, credit where it’s due I suppose.

        Perhaps that explains why legislators keep finding time to meddle in people’s pants.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 hours ago

        It’s Texas Republicans we’re talking about here. I’m not at all convinced that they can.

    • Kalkaline
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      33 hours ago

      We did fuck all and ERCOT is optimistic about the winter for some reason.

  • @[email protected]
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    825 hours ago

    Enterprising Texan pervert invents a dual-function gun-dildo that is constitutionally exempt from sex toy laws.

  • @[email protected]
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    143 hours ago

    Imagine being so unable to pleasure women that you’re jealous and petty against your wife’s dildo collection.

  • @Squorlple
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    143 hours ago

    You know, studies show that keeping a dildo inside the house is more dangerous than a loaded gun. That’s why I own 10 guns, in case some maniac tries to sneak in a dildo.

  • Dem Bosain
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    314 hours ago

    If they can outlaw a specific store from selling something, they can outlaw any store from selling anything. This isn’t just about sex toys, it’s a test to see what they can get away with.

    • @testfactor
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      -12 hours ago

      Tbf, the bill targets “retail stores,” not specifically Walmart.

  • partial_accumen
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    73 hours ago

    I’m interested in seeing a judicial decision on whether a double ended dildo counts as one dildo or two dildos.

    If you create a religion with a dildo being recognized by your dogma as official iconography, could you unlock “unlimited dildos” based upon religious freedom exceptions?

    • nocturne
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      52 hours ago

      Bonus points if the religion is a sect of christanity.

  • Optional
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    Exqueeze me? The fuck? Is that real?

    Edit: yes. Although it’s mired in legislative gobbledygook:

    Sec. 43.23. OBSCENITY. (a) A person commits an offense if, knowing its content and character, he wholesale promotes or possesses with intent to wholesale promote any obscene material or obscene device.

    (b) Except as provided by Subsection (h), an offense under Subsection (a) is a state jail felony.

    © A person commits an offense if, knowing its content and character, he:

    (1) promotes or possesses with intent to promote any obscene material or obscene device; or

    (2) produces, presents, or directs an obscene performance or participates in a portion thereof that is obscene or that contributes to its obscenity.

    (d) Except as provided by Subsection (h), an offense under Subsection © is a Class A misdemeanor.

    (e) A person who promotes or wholesale promotes obscene material or an obscene device or possesses the same with intent to promote or wholesale promote it in the course of his business is presumed to do so with knowledge of its content and character.

    (f) A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.

    So, women seem to be exempt (“he possesses with intent”) and it is a “performance”. Whatever that means. And it’s a misdemeanor.

    But it’s real. Can have six dildos in a performance, but more than six? Oooh that’s a paddlin’.

    • Atelopus-zeteki
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      The documentary, Dildo Diaries, explores the topic in great, and sometimes hilarious detail. I happened to see this film around 2003, at a small art cinema, with Laura Barton and Judy Wilder present. So afterwards we had a Q&A. At that time one could sell/posses a ‘representative model’ for demonstrating how to put on a condom, but it was illegal if it also vibrated. And one could sell/ possess a non-anatomically correct ‘dildo’, which could legally vibrate. But one could not sell / purchase both from the same store. There were/ are literally stores that have an interior door dividing the two types. Also, if I recall correctly, there were limits on how many one could have, and categories including ‘collectors’ for those that had more than 6, I think.

      https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332604/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl

    • @bahbah23
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      84 hours ago

      Well, I find this law to be obscene, so I guess it’s illegal.

    • Tiefling IRL
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      43 hours ago

      That gives me a hell of an idea for a stage act up here in NYC

    • Tiefling IRL
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      193 hours ago

      Support small businesses, don’t get your dildos from Walmart

    • KaRunChiy
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      84 hours ago

      Yes you can! Except they’re usually locked in a display case and you have to go and get someone to help you get one

      • nocturne
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        42 hours ago

        I always like to ask if they have anything bigger in the back.