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Anyone who has experienced getting their dilators confiscated by customs when traveling? I read a post on reddit where she got her dilators confiscated by customs when entering Malaysia, and it's something I've thought about a lot when thinking about traveling. Like I'd rather not run into this issueπ
Yeah that's what I was thinking too. I actually just looked it up and Malaysia does ban sex toys, but it seems like Thailand does too so idk. Do you think faking a doctors note for vaginismus could avoid confiscation?
Yeah that's true, it's just hard to gauge which countries would be risky to travel to. I kind of want to go to Russia this summer and I'm not sure if they would care or not, and I'd have to use Turkey as a stopover. I usually never travel with checked-in luggage, but wouldn't there be a risk there too?
I'm mainly worried about Russia as I'll be going to the Northern Caucasus region, possibly crossing Chechnya, so their laws could be stricter. From what I've read they do sometimes check luggage upon entering Chechnya and Ingushetia, so I might need to avoid going through there. I could end the trip in Vladikavkaz, but I hope to end the trip in Dagestan and fly home from there.
Very random, but you don't happen to know if Georgia would know if I entered Abkhazia and South Ossetia through Russia? Like if I get a new passport they wouldn't know right? I want to avoid being banned from Georgia.
I'll try looking into checked luggage for the flights.
Alright, I'll do some more research. I guess I'm just worried that they would be more strict due to the war and increasingly bad relations between the West and Russia. I do know some Ukrainian, but I'll try learning some Russian before going too.
Georgia considers it illegal to enter Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Russia as they see it as illegally entering into Georgia, so I think it applies broadly to everyone. I think you are right regarding the visa stamps, I can't see how else they would know outside of that.