Whew, That's a Relief

“Look, of course not, it’s a ridiculous question, and of course not,” Cruz told Sliwa on Friday. “What people do in their own private time with themselves is their own business and it’s none of government’s business.”

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But, of course, Texas outlawed the sale or purchase of them, and Cruz supported it there, so that headline's not the joke it appears to be. While solicitor general of Texas, he co-authored a brief for a court case to uphold the Texas law.

The brief insisted that Texas, in order to protect "public morals," had "police-power interests" in "discouraging prurient interests in sexual gratification, combating the commercial sale of sex, and protecting minors." There was a "government" interest, it maintained, in "discouraging…autonomous sex." The brief compared the use of sex toys to "hiring a willing prostitute or engaging in consensual bigamy," and it equated advertising these products with the commercial promotion of prostitution. 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."

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Don't worry, though. In 2008, the Court of Appeals finally put an end to the foolishness.

It's always amazing to me how the right wing faction shouts from the housetops about reducing the size of government...except when it comes to your bedroom.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.