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Owner Of Adult Store Stunned After Pentagon Demands She Stop Shipping Butt Plugs To Soldiers In Middle East (www.comicsands.com)

submitted 1 day ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from : https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/195203/owner-of-adult-store-stunned-after-pentagon-demands-she-stop-shipping-butt-plugs-to-sold

Apparently the US Department of ~~Defense~~War thinks that they can order non-US citizens not resident in the USA to cease and desist from mailing things.

Uh…

Hilarity of the items involved aside, the gall of the US military postal service to give orders to civilians not under their command and not even of their nation is shocking.

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 8 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Apparently they are concerned about soldiers stationed in other nations where sex toys are illegal getting in legal trouble. The original article is kinda funny.

[–] GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

other nations where sex toys are illegal

It is illegal to own more than 6 sex toys in Texas:

Texas Penal Code 43.23 (f) states: “A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.” Elsewhere, the code defines the devices as “a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.”

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

this is so funny, why 6 in particular? they went like "a good Christian can have five dildos, but six??? Six is just obscene!"

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Thank goodness people only have two hands...

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

MOLON LABE

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah Texas is crazy. Last I heard there were still sex shops there though. Can't remember how they work around it.

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Lol... most ironic use ever of, "penal code". (Thanks for giving me a laugh and making me feel 12 again)

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

This doesn't matter, because if you're a soldier getting things shipped to you, it goes to an APO box that then gets sorted internally to go wherever that soldier is stationed. You'd have to stop shipping to military members entirely.

[–] cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Seems like they could just restrict their people from ordering butt plugs, what with having the ability to order them to do things.

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They are not concerned about illegally attacking those nations, though.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 3 points 15 hours ago

They're not attacking Bahrain. Or other countries where the US has military bases. Those are the places that the US attacks from.