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Summary

A new Texas bill (SB 3003), introduced by Senator Angela Paxton, would require online sex toy retailers to verify buyers’ ages with government-issued photo IDs or third-party services.

Violations could result in Class A Misdemeanors and fines up to $5,000.

Critics say the bill echoes outdated obscenity laws and could push consumers to riskier retailers while creating privacy concerns.

Opponents argue it mirrors ineffective age verification laws seen nationwide and could lead to records of sex toy purchases being used against marginalized communities.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Tell me you’re a state with a bunch of insecure men without telling me you’re a state full of insecure men?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

You always needed ID to donate to a SuperPAC (⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ᴥ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ⁠ʋ⁠)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

This the same state that has a law limiting how many dildos you can own right? What do they have against sex toys??

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In unrelated news, online dildo sales have bottomed out

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But hairbrush sales are skyrocketing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

This face massager is very nice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

They just want to force women to get pregnant, for Jebus.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Its a good thing dildos and dick shaped things in general are almost impossible to make without complex tools and knowledge.

Oh wait, Maybe I am thinking of something else.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This is the sort of stuff Republican leadership concerns itself with. Dildo laws, while they cant keep the power on when it gets too hot or cold because they privatized their power grid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Texas won't infringe on your God given right to die of a preventable illness, but the power of the state protects its' citizens from cylindrical silicone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I would be interested to know the statistics of the number of phallic vegetable purchases before and after this becomes law, if it becomes law.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Isn't it already illegal to own more than 6 dildos?

The big picture here is that a dildo is liberating and we don't want that kind of satanic thinking blocking our ability to control people with our bullshit concept of morality at the service of churches and gas stations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

In other news, sales of some kinds of fresh vegetables have increased.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

All that freedom!! What will they do with it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Up next: cucumbers require photo ID.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Dildos should have a little camera that compares the face of the person using it to the registered owner.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's always the states that bitch about "the nanny state" the most who are constantly trying to nanny.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

As someone who lives in TX, I can confirm that the 1 star on the flag is the rating

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You mean the people that are strict adherants to "traditional values" and mostly always belong to one oppressive religion or another? God I wish these people had even the slightest bit of self reflection.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Correct, the "traditional values" pedophiles who champion marrying 12 year olds, child labor and forcing jesus in public schools. Not to mention all the affairs, money laundering, tax evasion, and and public gay sex they are caught participating in. It must be exhausting for these people to be obsessed with other peoples sex life.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

So much for the street markets selling dildos the old fashion way

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Republicans are so weird in their obsession with people’s genitals. Do they think of anything else, ever?..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

It'd be a shame if someone(s) sent an extra-large Dragon to her house.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

War on orgasms. Catchy political slogan.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

First they came for the emigrants. Then they came for your dildos.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"Party of Freedom"

Hey Texans. I have the freedom to walk down the street and buy weed at the weed store. Do you?

Hey Texans. Women here have rights your women don't.

Where dat freedom at? Is it trickling down?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“Party of Freedom”

Hey Texans. I have the freedom to walk down the street and buy weed at the weed store. Do you?

I'll give credit where it's due, in my state which is controlled by the same freedom, this is one we have.

THAT SAID, we're the only state with the only (two) cities controlled by the state instead of the city themselves, which of course the state views the cities as enemies so... yea. "Party of Freedom" still applies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

States seizing control of cities is something horrifying and should be seen as a means of repression

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kansas City and St Louis is pissed.

However the idiots in the rest of the state are celebrating. But hey, shouldn't be surprised, they vote in bills that go against Republican plans so the Republicans they vote in just overturn them with "The voters didn't know what they were voting for" then cry when we call them a bunch of fucking hicks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I assume those people don't like their state being called misery

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Free to be white, Christian, submissive, and breedable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Everyone has their kinks, I guess

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Land of the free.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Of course they'd like to ban underaged folk having access to sex toys. Once they're aware of their sexuality and comfortable with their body, they're less likely to be groomed by conservative predators.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the weirdest freaks I ever seen were the ones who were repressed growing up lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah both my cousins were raised in a house like this and both have spent time in prison. In my younger partying years, the ones that went the hardest were the Pentecostal kids.

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