5. Sex Toy Bans

Sex toys had a rough year, coming and going. Not only did people freak out about what was in their toys, but legislators had fits so profound about their very existence that it kinda made us all a bit uncomfortable to associate senators and butt plugs all in one sentence. ... But because they tried -- in some cases, successfully -- to make sex toys illegal in certain states, we have all been forced (with a vibrator to our collective heads) to consider anal beads and politicians in bed together, as it were. But seriously -- healthy, average adult Americans were forbidden their fundamental right to buzzing bunny vibrators and bend-over-boyfriend behind closed doors when a federal appeals court in Mississippi upheld the dismissal of a case challenging the state's sex toy ban. Mississippi joined the ranks of sex-toy hatin' states Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Texas, Louisiana and Virginia.



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