re: #98 compound idaho

The power to regulate masturbation is clearly one of those powers not delegated to the federal government therefore is reserved to the States or to the people unless you are paying for it. In that case it could be covered under the commerce clause. However; in that case it is more commonly referred to as a hand … never mind.

This reads almost exactly like the state of Texas’ petition to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, wherein it argues that the Texas anti-vibrator laws are somehow not ridiculous:

The State of Texas argued that the state has the right to regulate morality: “The state also argued in a brief that Texas has legitimate “morality based” reasons for the laws, which include “discouraging prurient interests in autonomous sex and the pursuit of sexual gratification unrelated to procreation.””

scienceblogs.com

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“The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm.”
— from some book Sarah Palin has almost certainly never read