I don’t like to feature politics too heavily here. There’s enough of it in the mainstream press, without it intruding into your sex blogs. However, this article on Ted Cruz was too amusing to resist.
Apparently, in his role as Texas solicitor general he once argued that dildos and vibrators should remain illegal in Texas.
In perhaps the most noticeable line of the brief, Cruz’s office declared, “There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one’s genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship.” That is, the pursuit of such happiness had no constitutional standing.
David Corn in Mother Jones
I’m not sure about you, but I don’t want to live in a country where I can’t stimulate my genitals for non-medical purposes.
Of course, the same guy who wants to monitor peoples sex toys is also the same person who believes in a small goverment that stays out of people’s lives. It takes a very peculiar kind of mind to hold both these points of view at the same time. And for any Ted Cruz supporters out there who I’ve offended, I can only apologize and ask: What on earth are you doing reading this blog? This is a ticket straight to hell.
There is of course only one way to finish a post like this. Here’s a lady sporting a dildo and stimulating her genitals. I’m not sure about her interpersonal status, but that doesn’t look like a medical or procreation situation to me. She better hope President Cruz never takes office.
This is so true. You’ve boiled it down perfectly
It’s a stupid law, but Cruz was doing what a solicitor general is paid to do, defend a law in court irrespective of his personal beliefs.
I’m a long way from a legal expert, but I think in these kind of cases they have a fair amount of discretion. They can choose to mount a very vigorous and serious defense, or they can do just the minimum required when they think it’s a pointless or lost cause. From the article it sounds like more of the former than the latter, particularly given they then filed another request (after losing) to get it re-heard by the full Texas Supreme court.
-paltego