Love Stuff Appeals Sex Toy Ruling

(Loretta Nall pictured in center presenting a large laminated poster of the Sex toys for Troy editorial cartoon to the clerks at Love Stuff in Hoover, AL.)

The Birmingham News is reporting that Love Stuff in Hoover is appealing the sex toy ruling.

An attorney for a Hoover store that sells vibrators and other sexual devices has filed an appeal with the Alabama Supreme Court, asking that part of the state's anti-obscenity law be declared unconstitutional.

Huntsville lawyer Amy Herring, who represents the Love Stuff store on U.S. 31, appealed the decision of Jefferson County Circuit Judge Robert Vance Jr., who ruled on Nov. 2 that the law was in accordance with the Alabama constitution. The law bans the sale of sexual devices except for medical, scientific, educational, legislative, judicial or law enforcement purposes.

Vance ruled in Love Stuff's favor in another part of that case. He rejected the city of Hoover's claim that Love Stuff violated a law against "adult-only" businesses operating within 1,000 feet of homes, schools and day care centers. Vance ruled the law was too vague because it did not define "adult-only" businesses.

Rep. John Rogers has already pre-filed a bill to repeal the ban on sex toys, I have repeatedly humiliated Troy King for going on two months now for his insertion of himself into this debate and now Love Stuff is asking the Alabama Supreme Court to declare part of the law unconstitutional.....which it clearly is.

Amazing what one inflatable pig can do!

Let's hope the Supreme Court makes the right decision and doesn't end up like Troy King did when he last broached this topic.

There are more pigs where Troy's came from!!

Monday Morning Rambling's

Over the weekend I took my son to Mobile for Open House at Alabama School of Mathematics & Science. Wow!! What a place!! If you have never been let me just tell you that it is an old Cathedral converted into an ultra-modern and high tech learning environment. Just as an example they teach five foreign languages. Spanish, German, French, Greek & Latin. Sixty percent of their faculty have Phd's and their staff is one assembled from an international pool. A really astounding place and the kids all looked so happy to be there. Basically, I don't care who I might have to bribe....I want my son in that school for his junior and senior years.

While in Mobile I called up J.D. Crowe, editorial cartoonist for the Mobile Press-Register and invited him out for a beer and a handshake for the two fabulous cartoons that he penned just recently:
Sex Toys for Troy and turkey baster.

JD and I met up at Hero's on Dauphin Street where he was kind enough to present me with the original Sex Toys toon with a dedication. I am most proud of the toon and plan to frame it in gold and hang it where I can see it upon leaving and returning home. JD is a very cool dude in my book and I enjoyed the hour or so we had to laugh and cut up over our elected officials. Thanks JD...we must do it again when we have more time.

Yesterday I met with most of the rest of my activist group. We are all going to New Orleans later this week to the International Drug Policy Reform Conference and I wanted to make sure everyone had all of their ducks in a row. I had two large laminated posters of the sex toy cartoon made and I had them with me to show my friends. One of them said, "Hey, we ought to go by Love Stuff and give them one of the posters." She called them up to make sure they were open and we headed that way. A couple members of our group expressed doubt that they would be open on Sunday in Alabama. However, while it is illegal in most places in Alabama to sell alcohol on Sunday there are no such prohibitions of adult novelty items.

The ladies at the store were thrilled by the poster and asked me to sign it for them. Here's a pic.


We took other photos as well but they are really not appropriate for posting. Yes..it's true....even I have limits when it comes to what I will put on my blog. My kids read this every day and they are not ready to see mom clowning around in an adult novelty store.

I did find out that Love Stuff has a website where you can order online. I looked for one when I started my sex toy drive but was unable to locate it. For the record their web address is http://www.lovestuffusa.net and they have an inflatable pig just like the one I sent Troy. So, if you have not yet mailed your gift to our wonderful and most deserving Attorney General let me encourage you to visit the Love Stuff link and send Troy some Holiday JOY!

Sex Toys for Troy King

WELCOME OnTap Readers...for all of the sex toys for troy coverage please click this link and read from the bottom up.

For readers surfing in from various places be sure not to miss yesterday's editorial cartoon.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Apparently this post has also caught the attention of someone from the Executive Office of the President...esseop05.eop.gov keeps popping up in my web traffic this morning. Hmmmmmmmm........

UPDATE: I just got off the phone with the Press-Register. They are doing a story on this.

The Birmingham News is reporting that Attorney General Troy King might push for tougher anti-obscenity laws in the next legislative session because of a recent court's ruling that the current laws are too vague with regard to Love Stuff, an adult toy shop.

Now, I only have six words to say to AG King about his anti-dildo crusade..FROM MY COLD DEAD FINGERS TROY!!!

I think that Troy may not have any experience with devices used in sexual pleasure, so, I am starting a crusade to introduce Troy King to the fabulous world of ben-wa balls, rubber weiners and pocket tooties. I want to encourage all of my readers to purchase a sex toy of some sort and send it to Alabama Attorney General Troy King. I also think there is something fundamentally wrong with a grown, college educated, elected official who seems to obsess over what other consenting adults in his home state might be using in the privacy of their bedrooms. I mean...don't we have much more serious problems in Alabama that our Attorney General should address?

Send your SEX TOYS FOR TROY to

Alabama Attorney General
c/o Troy King
11 South Union St., 3rd floor
Montgomery, AL 36130

If you participate and send a toy to Troy please post in the comments. I want to track how many he gets.

UPDATE: This seems to have caught on and is being carried by the following Alabama blogs.

Alabama Moderate
AntDawg
Bitter Old Punk
Daily Dixie
Gordon Unleashed
MetaChat

If this keeps up the entire AG's office could overflow with sex toys. Imagine that scene for a minute..... :)