Republicans Seem to Have A Thing About People Using Sex Toys
Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest dust-up involves dildos at CVS, Target
Having successfully overturned half a century of national abortion rights earlier this year at the US Supreme Court, the self-appointed right-wing morality police now appears to be in a twist over the availability of sex toys.
Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), the one-woman outrage machine behind the promotion of the QAnon conspiracy theories, the nonsense that California wildfires were caused by lasers in outer space owned by Jews, and more, focused on the issue over the weekend at a gathering of the right-wing faithful.
“Now in school we’re learning that teachers can pass around dildos, butt plugs and lube. Yeah, thank you very much, appreciate that. Project Veritas, ladies and gentlemen,” Greene said, citing the largely discredited far-right media organization. “Horrifying. By the way, you can pick up a butt plug or a dildo at Target and CVS nowadays. I don’t even know how we got here.”
Greene apparently was just passing on information from Fox News host Tucker Carlson's program from the night before, in which a correspondent claimed that one of Carlson’s producers “happened to notice” that CVS is “now” selling sex toys.
“And they appear to be a relative bargain,” Gallagher said. “For example, there’s a Tush Cush for $11.97, though the accompanying lotion that goes with it will set you back an additional $11.97. And if you’ve got the cash, right there in the middle, the Buzzy Butt will run you $32.50. Information I just wanted you to know about New York.”
Sex toys have been available at mainstream retailers for more than a decade, according to reporting by Vice News. Condom companies started selling their own sex toys in major retailers as early as 2011. By 2012, stores including CVS, Walgreens, Kroger, Safeway, Target and Walmart sold toys alongside prophylactics, Vice said.
This isn't even the beginning of the Republican obsession with sex toys. Before his election as a US senator from Texas, Ted Cruz defended a Texas ban on the sale of sex toys in the state as the Lone Star State's solicitor general.
But even Cruz tried to distance himself from that case back in 2016 when he was contending for the Republican nomination for president.
“What people do in their own private time with themselves is their own business and it’s none of government’s business,” he said then.
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