In Sandy Springs, Georgia, you need a prescription to buy a vibrator

[yazoo]

A quote of the first part. Full article available here...

Giving out prescriptions for vibrators seems more like a doctor's bad pick-up line than good public policy. But in Sandy Springs, Georgia, you really do need a medical reason – and a doctor's prescription – to buy a sex toy.

Melissa Davenport, a resident of Sandy Springs, has filed suit against the city because, as her lawyer Gerry Weber told a local TV station, the ordinance allows the government to "stick its nose in your bedroom and say you can use this but not that." Davenport has multiple sclerosis, which she says has impacted her sex life with her husband, and she credits sex toys with saving her marriage. Yet her doctors still won't write her a prescription.

Leaving aside the bizarreness of the policy itself – people should be able to buy sex toys for the sheer fun of it – it seems ironic that a woman with a real medical condition is being denied sex toys, when you consider that the vibrator was actually invented to cure a (fake) medical condition: hysteria.

 

[girth-brooks]

Until then, the washer on 'spin cycle' will have to do in the meantime...

 

[UhOh]

Until then, the washer on 'spin cycle' will have to do in the meantime...

Or buy her husband a harley and ride bitch

 

[SFMIKE]

Since we are talking Georgia here, probably ain't nobody yet figured , "hey, why don't we get in the old pickup and drive to the next town?"

No rocket scientists living there?

 

[Tugela]

I wonder if men are allowed to purchase butt plugs without a prescription?

The prohibition is on sex toys, not vibrators, so butt plugs are included. I am curious just how exactly they define what a sex toy is.

You can probably stock up on guns and assault rifles no problem though.

 

[uncleg]

Since we are talking Georgia here, probably ain't nobody yet figured , "hey, why don't we get in the old pickup and drive to the next town?"

No rocket scientists living there?

Yet, interestingly enough..if there were any rocket scientists in Georgia, Sandy Springs is probably where they would be living.

 

[yazoo]

Sandy springs is a suburb of Atlanta... Why won't she drive 20 mins South to Buckhead to buy sex toys? :|

It's the states. Filing a lawsuit is so much easier.

 

[HankQuinlan]

I believe the point is to protest a really, really, stupid law that should have been a scraphead decades ago. Some people stand up and do something.

 

[SFMIKE]

Just curious here, how many of you have ever been to a smaller town in the deep South?

It is not the same in most of the US, but it is the deep south.

 

[badbadboy]

Just curious here, how many of you have ever been to a smaller town in the deep South?

It is not the same in most of the US, but it is the deep south.

Yup, but in reality only passin through. I've been in small towns in FL, GA, Carolina's, and TX.