
The Texas ban on sex toys was struck down by federal appeals supporting that this legislation violates constitutional right to privacy.
According to Texas law, it is illegal to to sell, advertise, give or lend sex toys as they are considered obscene devices used for sexual stimulation. Due to this, a person purchasing a sex toy may do it only for medical, psychiatric, judicial, legislative purposes. Also a person who owns six or more sex toys is considered to be promoting them.
An individual who wished to legally use a safe sexual device for private use or with another person couldn't purchase a sex toy in Texas, as this interfered with the law.
Texas law prohibiting sex toys was introduced in the 1970s and though there were no cases of charges against anyone who sold or used sex toys in the past seven years, the ban still existed. In 2003, a woman in the Fort Worth suburb of Burleson was charged for selling sex toys at a party but later all the charges were canceled.
Other US states that have the same laws banning sex toys are Mississippi, Alabama and Virginia. Recently, four other states Louisiana, Kansas, Colorado and Georgia decided to abolish the law of sex toys ban.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Texas law on sale of sex toys, applying to the cancellation of the law prohibiting private consensual sex among people of the same sex. Several adult stores claimed that their businesses suffered from the law and customers could not buy their sex toys for personal use.
The state also disagreed that laws, which "discouraging prurient interests in autonomous sex and the pursuit of sexual gratification unrelated to procreation" are "morality based. The decision of the court was applauded by adult businesses nationwide.










