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December, 1998

Illegal Sex ToysBirmingham, Alabama---Six women asked a federal judge to block a state law that bans the sale of vibrators, dildos and other sex toys. The statute makes it a crime punishable by a $10,000 maximum fine or up to a year in jail to distribute "any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs," (Mere possession of sex toys remains legal.) The law passed after being added to a bill outlawing strip clubs in a northern Alabama coun...