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http://www.independentmail.com/and/home/article/0,1886,AND_8195_4641568,00.html
I just came across this today and thought the community here
might be interseted in reading. Apparently a bill has been
introduced to the South Carolina state legislature banning
the sale of sex toys within the state. Not a new concept in
the Deep South, but interesting in a state that's one of the
forerunners in laws countering human trafficking.
Now what's interesting is this is really a conflict between
the right to privacy and the label of obscene. A little background.
The right to privacy mostly applies to medical procedures--investigation
of injuries, physical examinations, that sort of thing. It's
been a major rally point for a lot of liberals and progressives
on issues such as personal freedom of specfici possessions,
clothing, access to birth control, abortion, pornography,
government monitoring of private citizens, etc.
Regarding obscenity, the Supreme Court has created what's
called the Miller Test (as in Miller v. California, 1973)
that has three prongs that material must satisfy:
- Whether the average person, applying contemporary community
standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals
to the prurient interest,
- Whether the work depicts/describes, in a patently offensive
way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable state
law,
- Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary,
artistic, political, or scientific value.
Now back to the bans. It concerns me that the legislation
has gone this far. Anti-sodomy laws that target homosexual
couples when heterosexual couples also take part in such activities,
the possibility of rampant government monitoring of our activities
on this website and on our phone lines--it reminds me that
it was only thirty years ago that we won guaranteed access
to birth control and that Prohibition only lasted ten years.
Our personal freedoms really aren't that personal when the
government reserves the right to limit them as they see fit.
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