Recently a commercial aired locally about the new Trojan Tri-Phoria vibrator - or, rather "massager." The commercial itself is a hoot and a half, with a new bride getting some of these special toys as bridal shower gifts....
Well here. You watch it for yourself.
This commercial makes me giggle for several reasons.
1.) That this woman is getting what are traditional known as marital aids *before the wedding... by three close girlfriends who no doubt know what her man can and *can't* do.
2.) That the groom at the end is ever so excited that they got more than one.
3.) It's not available for sale in my state.
Actually it's not available for sale in six states: Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kansas and Virginia.
I find this both kinda funny and extremely sad.
Especially when I open up an article today on a drive-thru "pleasure" shop in Alabama. In this state where you are not required to have a permit for a GUN, these business owners have had to jump through legal loopholes in order to make sexual enhancement aids available for sale for those poor, sexually frustrated Alabamans. The only reason they can? Their customers have to sign a document saying they "have difficulty with sexual fulfillment" in order to skirt an anti-obscenity law enacted in 1998, which prohibits the sale of such items.
Turns out a "free market" isn't quite so free. Those who clamor for smaller government only mean smaller government for their tax bracket... not obstructive laws built on nothing more than a puritan-religious philosophy that says the enjoyment of sex is bad... especially if you're a woman.
Let's get real about this stuff, folks. Web MD puts the figure at somewhere around 70% for a woman to require clitoral stimulation in order to achieve an orgasm. That means intercourse alone traditionally doesn't get the job done. In fact, there was a time in our not so distant past when women had orgasmless sex just because they believed that such a thing did not exist for them.
They were not allowed to experiment with lovers (good girls just don't) or their own bodies (*gasp*), so they basically were conditioned to believe that the man got to reach his finish line at the end of every lovemaking session, but in the end having sex as a woman was her duty.
If you want me to define obscene... that would be it.
Thank God for the Sexual Revolution, which blew the doors off of such conventional, anti-feminist thinking.
Thanks to birth control women could actually experiment with different lovers AND we were finally given permission to explore the dynamics of our own bodies. We ladies finally had orgasms, and figured out we kinda liked em.
Sex was fun! Sex was pleasurable! And we didn't need a man to get us there!
If you ask me, I think that's what freaks out men the most. That, and that we could have any spot on our body that would rival their phallic symbol of superiority.
In the womb, very early on before the genitalia is completely formed, there is no real distinction between a penis and a clitoris. This means that the clitoris is, biologically speaking, on the same playing field. Not so surprisingly this is where the woman gets the most sexual arousal. I know you guys want to think your love toy is the only one she needs to make her eyes roll back in her head, but you really gotta stop worshipping at the altar of the penis.
Imagine if we touched everywhere on your body but directly where you required the most stimulation. How frustrated would YOU be? Why, you'd have to fill out a form at an Alabama drive thru sex shop!
Embrace the entire wonderland of her body with other appendages you've got going for you, and stop being so afraid of nifty equipment that will really get her motor revved.
It adds a bit of pepper to the gumbo, ifyaknowhatimsayin.
"Ginger! How can you even talk about such things and call yourself a Christian?"
Simple. I understand something you clearly don't. God loves us the same way he loves the dolphins. If sex was only made for procreation, we'd be nothing more than dogs in heat - we'd only have sex when the conditions were ripe to conceive. But he didn't do that. He gave us sex for pleasure, but man (and religion) has turned it into something sinful and dirty. What better way to control a large group of people than take something that is so biologically natural and attach loads of guilt and shame to it?
I find it interesting that mankind has no problem attaching such mortal emotions like wrath, anger and vengeance to a God who made us in his image... but to imagine God honoring or at least understanding those things that brings us pleasure immediately puts a stick up everyone's butt.
Newsflash: There's no verse anywhere in the Bible that specifically denounces masturbation as a sin. There are a few "iffy" verses *maybe*, but I'm sorry... you religious types have skated by on "iffy" verses for too long.
You may think you do but you don't get to make up sins as you go along, interpreting things your way just so you can oppress behavior you don't understand.
And you certainly don't get to make laws about it, based on your own narrow religious definition.
So that leaves the very broad definition of what is obscene.
I'm not exactly sold that we need to legislate on this matter any more than we legislate on religion. It's much too individual to govern. What's obscene to me might not be obscene to you, and vice versa.
Consider it wasn't all that long ago when bare chair legs were considered to "incite lust," and thereby fell under the definition of obscene.
Shouldn't we be allowed to make this decision for ourselves? How can you decry the government as a "nanny" state when you depend on these laws to legislate what you consider the immorality of folks you don't even know?
As long as people are not physically endangered, I don't see the problem with the distribution of sexual enhancement aids among consenting adults.
To paraphrase Elle Woods: Sex "gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't shoot their husbands."
So let us have our orgasms, guys. You might even find you will get a few more of your own. ;)
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