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Every state has odd laws but Texas limits the number of sex toys you are allowed to own to 5.

• striking 2y ago
  My goodness, you're not kidding. https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/the-texas-law-that-dictates-adult-toys/ https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/the-texas-law-that-dictates-... I dug a little further and apparently there's an "obscenity" law that prevents you from selling sex toys as sex toys, according to https://www.houstonpress.com/news/opinion-yes-texas-has-a-law-limiting-dildo-ownership-but-not-guns-13497950 https://www.houstonpress.com/news/opinion-yes-texas-has-a-la... > Like Heather, she spent her time in Dallas lying to people about products to stay ahead of vice officers. > “This was my first experience as a white girl from Wisconsin at fearing the police,” she says. “My heart was in my throat. I had to say with a straight face, ‘no, this three-pound dildo is a cake topper.’ I would have to talk around any reference to the body parts these were supposed to be used on. Even with regulars who I knew were okay, I never changed the words in case I got used to telling the truth and slipped up when a cop was around.” Freedom.
• goneri 2y ago
  It's actually 6. https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.43.htm https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.43.htm (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.
  • EmuAGR 2y ago
    Well, you're allowed to 5; from 6 included you're presumed to promote obscenity.
  • freejazz 2y ago
    Read it again.
  • quickslowdown 2y ago
    Read it like this: you are allowed less than 6 sex toys in Texas.