Illegal Sex Toys Revisited
Thursday February 28, 2008
You may remember the story of Kandiss Crone, a local "reporter" in Jackson, Mississippi who was the front for an elaborate sting operation against a small town, wheelchair accessible, sex store. In case you forgot, she's the one with the matching argyle sweater and vibrator.
Well Dan Savage, writer, sex columnist and sex activist extraodinare wrote about Kandiss in his Savage Love column two weeks and encouraged his readers both to write to Ms. Crone directly and cc him so we could all appreciate their efforts (I think he also suggested they send her their old sex toys). This week he published reader responses in a column simply titled Letters to Kandiss Crone. Well worth reading.
Read more - Savage Love: Letters to Kandiss Crone
I live in Birmingham, Alabama, and the same thing goes on here. Sex toys are illegal unless they are “novelties” or used for “medical” purposes. An adult movie theatre was just shut down because people thought it was bad for business (there are no businesses in the immediate area). I work at a magazine, and we got hate calls from people upset over a story about a mom telling her kids about the birds and the bees.
Yes, the South is very much still a backward place. But there are people here who are trying to change things. Running away to Canada isn’t the answer. Stay here, and fight for your rights!!
Nadria it’s funny I was just having this conversation with someone last night. They were expressing the same opinion as you but it wasn’t about sexual freedoms, it was about Americans who had left the U.S. because of Bush.
Why are some states so against this kind of thing? I really struggle to understand it. Does this not breach some sort of Human Rights law?