Thought for the day
April 25, 1999
Ok, this is a weird one and you'll probably be tempted to check your calendars to see if you've been sucked into a time-warp, but here it is. A judge recently overturned a year-old law banning the sale of vibrators and other so-called "sex toys" to women in the state of Alabama.
Lawyers for the State of Alabama defended the law and said "people don't have a fundamental right to sexual gratification." H-E-L-L-O? What was that phrase in the Declaration of Independence? Something about life, liberty and what was that again? OH YEAH, THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
Two other states have similar bans (Texas and Georgia) and remarkably, those withstood initial challenges. Hopefully women in those two states will be able to model their next legal challenge on the precedent set by this federal judge (Lynwood Smith).
Women have just as much right to sexual gratification as men and it's time we acknowledge that it takes more for most women to achieve orgasm than just penetration. If you don't believe that, 1) you're male, and 2) you haven't had much experience.
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