Court Upholds Alabama Sex Toy Ban

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A federal appeals court just upheld Alabama’s sex toy ban, defending the state’s interest in “preserving and promoting public morality,” i.e. invading your privacy so you don’t do it yourself. That’s bad news for Sherri Williams, the adult store (NSFW) owner who’s the lead plantiff on the case (and whom we wrote about last year.) This could be the end of the road for the case—the Supreme Court has already refused to touch it.