Friday, June 03, 2022

Buying Things In Texas:
Legal: 2 AR-15s & 1,600+ Rounds Of Ammo — Illegal: 7 Dildos

It's true!
Texas Penal Code
Title 9: Offenses Against Public Order and Decency
Chapter 43: Public Indecency

Sec. 43.21. Definitions. (a) In this subchapter:
(1) "Obscene" means material or a performance that:
(A) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest in sex;

(B) depicts or describes:
(i) patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including sexual intercourse, sodomy, and sexual bestiality; or

(ii) patently offensive representations or descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions, sadism, masochism, lewd exhibition of the genitals, the male or female genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal, covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state or a device designed and marketed as useful primarily for stimulation of the human genital organs; and
(C) taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, and scientific value.
(2) "Material" means anything tangible that is capable of being used or adapted to arouse interest, whether through the medium of reading, observation, sound, or in any other manner, but does not include an actual three dimensional obscene device. . . .

(7) "Obscene device" means a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs. . . .
Sec. 43.23. Obscenity. . . .
(f)  A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.

A 2016 protest: Cocks Not Glocks

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