The Texas Dildo Law

While many of you are reporting on the mass shootings that continue to happen around the country, you might be interested in this fact.

Did you know that in Texas, there is no law as to how many guns you can own, but there is a law about how many dildos you can own?

No, seriously.

Back when Texas Senator Ted Cruz was solicitor general for the state, he argued in the US Court of Appeals, that, "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."

There is a law in Texas that makes it illegal for a person to own six or more dildos.

Section 43.23 “Obscenity” of the Texas Penal Code considers a felon “A person commits an offense if, knowing its content and character, he wholesale promotes or possesses with intent to wholesale promote any obscene material or obscene device.” And then under provision F, “A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.”

The Texas Penal Code understands that an “Obscene device” means a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs. So, because the law considers dildos obscene devices, and a person who owns more than six obscene devices is committing a criminal offense, therefore, owning 6 dildos (or plastic vaginas) is illegal. 

So, in Texas, feel free to buy all the guns you want, but better keep the dildo purchases to less than 6.

How F’d up is that?