Wow.  I didn’t even know that there was a state who had a ban on sex toys, but apparently Texas did, and it has now been lifted thanks to a judgment by an appeals court for a company that thought the law was unfair and trying to regulate what adults do in their own private time in their own homes.  I second that motion!

The statute that had been on the books was one of the oldest ones, and left Texas as one of only two state with such strict laws on the books about selling toys of an obscene nature.  So, really, those sex toy parties that are so popular everywhere else, would have been totally illegal in Texas.  Very strange thought indeed.

The first court to hear the case, which was brought by two sellers of such toys back in 2004, said that the constitution did not offer any protection for them, and therefore the Texas law was upheld, but they took it all the way to appeals, and a judgment has now been held in their favor as having the law overturned/repealed. 

This is encouraging news for other sex toy makers and sellers that are left in another state or two with the same ridiculous, outdated laws, but they are still fighting their way through the courts to get the law lifted, and have been in some cases for up to years.  I’m amazed that this type of law regulating people’s private business is still constitutional in some states.  Makes you wonder why we have a US constitution when states can still make laws that sort of infringe on our rights, you know?