I’m so glad to be Canadian!
“Only 7 out of 50 states ban the sale of Adult Toys, but with the 11th Districts recent decision in Williams vs. Alabama we can expect that number to grow substantially.”
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Sherri Williams has is trying to fight the state of Alabama, and I think she deserves some support. For me, this is about more than sex toys; it’s about how much say the Government should have in your private life.
Let’s be real. This has nothing to do with Homeland Security, Terrorism, or even Domestic crime. This is about privacy, and the right to, as an ADULT, make your own choices concerning your life.
This post started out as a light-hearted make fun of Alabama thing, but as I write…my mind is moving on… While Canada doesn’t outlaw the sale or distribution of sex toys in any of it’s provinces, (that I know of anyway) I do have similar thoughts about the government having too much power concerning the non-smoking bans that are cropping up.
First off. I’m NOT a smoker, but I do think business owners should have the power of choice. I’m referring to the fact that in a couple of months, the bar I work in will be FORCED by the government to become a non-smoking establishment. I personally think that the owner should have the choice. Why can’t there just be a by-law that states if it’s to be a smoking environment there HAS to be a top-of-the-line air filtration system installed? It’s a bar. Adults only. People have the choice to go into it or not.
I think Ralph Klienhas the right of it when “He ordered Health Minister Iris Evans to present amendments to bar smoking everywhere except facilities where people under the age of 18 are not allowed.”
Like I said, I’m not a smoker, and yes, I do admit to having a sex toy or two…but to me this is about the power that we, as People are giving up. So if either of these issues strikes a cord, please, contact your local, or federal representative, and voice an opinion. It CAN make a difference.
I am so with you girl. Who does the government think they are trying to take our rights away and in the same breath say what a lovely FREE country we live in. BS! This country is becoming a dictatorship extremely fast. Whoops sorry forgot to mention I live int he Beautiful BS country of USA. Don’t get me wrong I have all the patriot spirit any one person can have and I love my country because with all its flaws it is still better than most, but it seems to be getting worsse everyday.
I think that if you have a smoking allowed facility like a restaraunt then smoking should be closed off from non-smoking. Bars should not be told to be non smoking becasuse hey smoking and drinking go hand and hand. next thing you know they will say that they are banning the sale of alcohol. Let’s see how many of those non-smokers all for the ban on smoking get when they have that arise. And sex toys, I’m sorry but what gives anyone the right to jump in my bedroom. Would they rather have people have sex toys and vibes in their bedrooms or have people sleeping with everyone under the sun getting diseases and spreading them because they are in desperate need of their OFF.
Done ranting…back to you Sasha
Completely with you Sasha, government interference is rampant, I too am a non smoker, I wish EVERY establishment would CHOOSE to be non smoking, but I am completely against any legislation that takes away the right of the business owners to choose. I don’t even think they should be legislated to install ventilation, if the non smokers did not frequent the establishment at all, the owners would see the loss in business, and could make up their own minds.
Now I don’t think that we should allow the sale of sex toys in Wal-Mart… but to not allow the sale period is appalling! My solution…. Any place that allows smoking (everyone over the age of 18) should be allowed to sell sex toys!…. Hell they should even allow the USE of sex toys… Now THAT would bring me, the non smoker, into a smoking establishment!!
:doze: In BC it was workers compensation that put the bans on smoking in the work place. Even my smoker husband likes being able to eat without have smoke drift into his face. In most places the non smoking section was the smaller area now it is the glassed in smoking section. Try going to a casino in BC and then one in Alberta and you will notice how much more pleasant the non smoking ones are. Do you MIND if I don’t smoke. The problem with a smoking ban in pubs is that people go out side to smoke and that has caused fights here.
And Shayne you can buy sex toys at wal-mart, use your imagination! As long as these Alabamans don’t make it illegal to own one.
Did you know that oral sex is also illigal in some states. In Canadian tradition our great Prime Minister Piere Alliot Trudeau pushed through a bill in 1969 that the government had no place in the Bedrooms of Canadians. (love the year it happend)
SOMEONE CALL THE BATTERY MANUFACTURERS!!!! I bet they could stop any ban on the sale of sex toys. On a more serious note, it’s only been the last year or two that Texas finally got rid of it’s sodomy law :crazy:
:laugh: Shayne! As a bartender…I don’t really want sex toys being used IN the bar. :crazy:
Also, I agree, they shouldn’t be sold in Wal-Mart. There also shouldn’t be smoking in Wal-Mart. But I do think that in places that require ID, like bars, casinos, adult stores….That as adults we should have choice!!
I for one welcome a smoking ban. Smoking is much worse than marijuana and alcohol. The damages of secondhand smoke are life changing. Secondhand smoke kills more people than drunk driving. The average smoker causes more damage to their body than the average drinker.
People who fight outside of bars are pre-destined to be involved in violent acts anyway and smoking outside just gives them the opportunity.
The fact is, since people aren’t listening to the dangers of smoking, they need to be de-motivated into quitting. And if someone decides not to go outside at -30 degrees in the winter to get their nicotine fix and that in turn slows the cancer they’re inflicting on themselves and those who pass by the door they’re standing in front of smoking, then the law has saved one life.
I say this after returning for the day from a cancer clinic holding the hand of a friend who has it the size of a tennis ball in her upper left lung and also on the day that Terry Fox dipped his foot in the Atlantic 25 years ago.
Crap. I typed a long post and it seems to have gotten lost.
I’m not debating the effects of smoking. Hell, I’m a non-smoking bartender that is exposed to reams of second hand smoke. BUT, this is my choice. I choose to work in a bar because I make more money there than in the resaurant. I have no problem with a smoking ban in PUBLIC places where anyone can be exposed to it. BUT, in a pub, casino, bar, bingo hall…where you have to be legal to get into the establishment. . . I think it should be a CHOICE. People have the CHOICE of entering such an establishment, people have a CHOICE of working in one, if you don’t want to be exposed to second hand smoke, don’t go into that place. If businesses were offered a choice to make it smoking or non, I do believe some would go completely non-smoking, to cater to the TONS of people that feel strongly about second hand smoke. When I go out…I choosenot to go to bars or places that are smoking.
What I don’t like is the government taking away our choice.
I think often the government goes after certain scapegoats. Like the whole deal with Janet Jackson showing her boob, and then the FCC cracks down on Howard Stern. What’s with that? I won’t go into my political viewpoints, but I’m tempted. Grrr. I think the government does go places where it doesn’t belong, and the bedroom is one of them.
God, I could write a BOOK on your blog about all this, Sasha!
I’ve been following this case. It’s ludicrous.
And I’m a smoker. And I have a sex toy (just for show, you understand). 🙂
But what many people fail to realize is that this stuff isn’t about smoking, or sex toys, etc. It’s about TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN OUR LIVES. One of my first thoughts after 9/11 was, ‘they’re going to use this to take away more of our civil & personal rights.’
And they are.
NO government should have the right to tell you what to do in the privacy of your home, unless it’s injurious to some party. If I OWN a business & wish to allow smokers, I should have that right, without being pressured, as long as I make it clear that it IS a smoking bar to the patrons.
It’s called Freedom of Choice! It means I’m an ADULT, & want to be TREATED like one, & that means making my own freaking decisions. If I don’t like the smoke, I can go to a smoke-free bar. SIMPLE.
FREEDOM OF CHOICE.
What right does a government have to dictate what KIND of sex anyone has??!! My morality, my sexual preferences, etc., are MY bloody business.
Our lawmakers have forgotten that THEY WORK FOR US.
Dammit. :angry:
:hehe:Just for show Dream? hee hee who do you show it too? Isn’t this lawsuit mostly to shut down sex shops where they sell sex toys, now the words marital aids is hilarous.
Sometime I think it is too distract us from the real big issues like the scandle over the misuse of government money in Qubec. In the some of the casinos there is allready a non smoking section usually a smaller section in the back. In BC there are areas one can go to smoke and in some casinos they don’t allow drinks outside the resturant.
Don’t know if it’s the same case, but there’s a lady caught in legal action because she was having a ‘marital aid’ party (like Tupperware!) in her OWN HOME with her PERSONAL FRIENDS–and the law stepped in.
Freedom, huh?
hmm I wonder how the law found out about her party. Oh I missed the part that it was to stop them from selling them anywhere in Albama.
I was suprised that Texas is one of the states where the law is in effect. Americans are so affraid of there sexual selfs…must come from the pilgrams.
Okay back to voice my opinion. Again! I think the government has totally gone overboard with all their sanctions and laws to stop our personal freedoms. People should be allowed to have sex in any position or with any piece of machinery that is wanted. People as individuals are intelligent creatures, but when you get a group of peope together all of a sudden they turn in to the most ignorant bunch of jellyfish ever. They bow down to one group of complainers and forget that there are other points of view.
I am thinking about becoming a "Pleasure" party girl. Selling those offensive pieces of plastic that make men so darn upset.
Jealousy you know?! 😀
Besides you do realize that most of of our lawmakers are men. They just want to make sex toys illegal so they have a fighting chance of getting laid.
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:hehe:Paula it ain’t only girls that use that certain object. :blush:
But I guess your point still stands on Jealousy.
You all think I should email this post, and the comments to my local representative? :rolleyes:
I think Dream says it best…"It’s about TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN OUR LIVES. "
I think, if I was having a sex toy party, which I have had…lol, and the law came to the door to shut us down…I would defintely be in court!