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This month the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Alabama’s ban on the sale of sex toys, ending a nine-year legal battle and sending a warning to store owners to clean off their shelves.

An adult-store owner had asked the justices to throw out the law as an unconstitutional intrusion into the privacy of the bedroom. But the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, leaving intact a lower court ruling that upheld the law.

Alabama’s anti-obscenity law, enacted in 1998, bans the distribution of “any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for anything of pecuniary value.”

The law does not ban the possession of sex toys, and it doesn’t regulate other items, including condoms or virility drugs. Residents may legally purchase sex toys out of state for use in Alabama, or they may buy sexual devices in Alabama that have a “bona fide medical” purpose.

So if you’re in Alabama (or anywhere else) you can click the following link if you want a good butt plug.

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Okay, maybe these arent’s shots of California’s governor having sex on the set of the next Terminator movie. But that’s what they made me think of when I ran across them. Actually the images below are from czar’s Flickr photoset “Make Love Not War.”

Here’s a little 4 minute video from the Adult Treasure Expo held last month in Tokyo, Japan. We all know how much the Japanese people love gadgets of all kinds, and this video showcases some of the things you may find available from your favorite purveyor of adult toys sometime soon.

Some of the sex toys shown in the video are from Kanojo Toys, which sells some products direct from their website.

Next time someone wants to know what songs push your buttons, they may have something special in mind. Just in time for the holidays, how about a new musical orgasm machine?

If you have a iPod (or any portable music player with an earphone jack), just plug in the iBuzz and your headphones, turn on whatever music you like, and you’ll feel how the vibrations are now in time to your favorite songs. Get down and get off. Turn up the music and the vibrations get stronger too.

The iBuzz includes a music-activated vibrating bullet with both his and hers attachments. And if you forget your music player, there are even 7 built-in vibrations patterns so you don’t have to suffer in silence.

This one should give people a whole new reason to make and share some special “playlists.” Check out the details at the iBuzz website.

Walk past the “dick tree” and the electric nipple clips and you come to The Throne, a replica of a reclining rocker that once toured the finest whorehouses in 19th-century France. An attached card says it was used for “group games.” While Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid and Amsterdam all have “museums of the erotic,” the Sex Machine Museum in Prague may be the first of its kind. The museum showcases an exposition of mechanical erotic appliances which were designed to bring pleasure and allow extraordinary and unusual positions during intercourse.

On an area of three floors there are more than 200 objects and mechanical appliances on view, a gallery of art with erotic themes, a cinema with old erotic films, erotic boudoir clothing and various other things related to human sexuality. You’ll see sex machines that are precursors to our modern-day stimulators, chastity belts, iron corsets, and other historical contraceptive devices. Some are demonstrated by mannequins, others speak for themselves. The wide variety of appliances range from intriguing to disturbing.

If you’re planning a trip to Prague anytime soon, you can visit the Sex Machines Museum between 10am and 11pm daily. Remember that no one under 18 is allowed inside. Their address is Melantrichova 18 - 11000 Praha 1, and their phone number is + 420 224216505.

You can also visit the Sex Machines Museum website.