I like the idea of silicon much better, it’s supposed to warm up, at least it’s what this seller’s site said:

http://jackhammerjesus.ytmnd.com/
“Jesus was a carpenter, now he’s a powertool”

I know the religious figures are actually on the handle side “The Jackhammer Jesus has just one safety rule: feet first, feet first, not the head, ya fool.”, but before I knew that and when I first heard of it, my first thought was; “This is where Buddha would definitely be more popular than Jesus!”

Oh oh oh! It’s not a sex toy! It’s a religious icon! I demand my right to worship my religion!

- MG

For awhile, the “novelty” classification was a wink-and-nudge way to get around laws forbidding selling sexual material. This has led to a fairly deregulated industry: Since they weren’t actually selling devices for sex, but novelties, they could put whatever they wanted into the mixture. This has both industrial, cost-saving benefits– cheap materials since it’s for sinful sex toys– and proprietary ones: Some companies keep a lid on their formulas so no one can replicate their fake flesh.

It’s taken awhile, pretty much by word-of-mouth over the Internet–by my observation– for people to start noticing and lobbying. Other companies work in neutral materials like silicone, glass and acrylic. Adam & Eve, a big distributor, recently announced they’d not be selling toys containing pthalates, substances which got phased out of children’s toys a few years ago.

Then again, given laws like this, I’m not sure I want the government regulating the sex toy industry, even though lack of intervention has allowed cheap and dangerous stuff to flourish.

On another interesting side note, mentioning glass and water pipes: I know there’s been federal intervention to some glass manufacturers– Tommy Chong springs to mind. Then, over the last few years, I’ve noticed a lot more glass sex toys. I’ve often wondered if those artisans, fearful for getting busted over pipes, just turned their talents to similar phallic creations.

You beat me to it. I must have the intent of opening a drive-thru shoppe.

That was fun, I got to use two ridiculous words at once.

Nor walked into a public place and wanked a couple dozen innocent people to death.

As far as actual availability of toys, haven’t seen much difference b/t living in GA and AL and places that don’t have these dumb laws anymore, with the exception that not all sex stores in sane states also carry a large selection of “tobacco” products. Go figure.

Maybe I should open a fireworks and sex toy stand at the state line…

When having dildos is criminal, the politicians ARE dildos…