Ted Cruz wants to ban masturbation, says sex-toys are like hiring a prostitute

[DetlefK]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/13/1514818/-Call-of-the-Dildos-The-Ted-Cruz-Story

Getting attention today: The court case in which Republican now-presidential candidate Ted Cruz, then the Texas solicitor general, ferociously defended the state's law barring the sale of dildos.

The brief insisted that Texas in order to protect "public morals" had "police-power interests" in "discouraging prurient interests in sexual gratification, combating the commercial sale of sex, and protecting minors." There was a "government" interest, it maintained, in "discouraging...autonomous sex." The brief compared the use of sex toys with "hiring a willing prostitute or engaging in consensual bigamy," and it equated advertising these products with the commercial promotion of prostitution. In perhaps the most noticeable line of the brief, Cruz's office declared, "There is no substantive-due-process right to stimulate one's genitals for non-medical purposes unrelated to procreation or outside of an interpersonal relationship."

[democrank]

1. More rules from the

"smaller government" folks.

[SusanCalvin]

16. Yep. nt

[Human101948]

25. Blows off hands...now "Master of his Own Domain!"

Ohio ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Loses Hands To Homemade Bomb

http://freakoutnation.com/2016/04/ohio-sovereign-citizen-loses-hands-to-homemade-bomb/

[Warren DeMontague]

2. THEY ARE A PORTAL TO DEMONIC REALMS

[redwitch]

8. Republicans are the gateway to demonic realms.

I have thought so for a long time. Can we ban them? Please?

P.S. I hate this thread because it made me think about Ted Cruz and masturbation in the same thought. And now I am scarred for all time.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. He is quite possibly one of the most icky humans I've ever seen.

There is just something profoundly yucky about the guy.

[redwitch]

10. Plus he has that voice.

Just awful.

[sinkingfeeling]

26. And that evil-puppet face.

[3catwoman3]

29. A trifecta of...

...

[Warren DeMontague]

44. he's just so... Oily

[3catwoman3]

46. The perfect opportunity for a cool word...

...that I don't get much chance to use - oleaginous.

[Warren DeMontague]

50. Yep, thats him.

[Initech]

37. Someone bring me my damn lemons!

[Ed Suspicious]

3. If that's they case, Ted Cruz is a serial masturbator. I bet he's masturbating always and

right now, with sex toys.

: PROJECTION :

:mindbleach:

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Mmmmmm. Hair.

[NCjack]

53. If you can't see his hands, he's ... /nt

[merrily]

4. I tried several responses, but, in the context of the OP, they

all seemed smutty, which was not my intent. I give up.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. you just have to keep plugging away

[merrily]

7. The responses I deleted actually seemed smuttier.

Sometimes, seeming suggestive is worse than just saying it.

For example, despite my quirky quasi-Victorian personality, in the right circumstances, I can post "fuck" without blushing or reconsidering, but I deleted three or four unintentionally "dirty" replies.

[Bad Dog]

11. Who is he trying to appeal to?

I thought he'd already got the religious nutter vote sorted.

[A Simple Game]

34. More important, who is he trying to protect? Isn't that the reason for laws, to protect society? nt

[Bad Dog]

36. I suppose it depends on who you ask.

This seems all about ramming a backdated ideology down people's throats.

[NCjack]

55. Ted is concerned that the Bible says:

"It is better to spill your seed in the belly of a whore, than to spill it on the ground".

That justifies Ted in screwing around outside of his marriage. However, someone should challenge him to find that quote in the Bible. (Hint: it isn't there.)

[Bad Dog]

60. I can't see why anyone would vote for him.

He just seems to want to make the World a nastier place.

[eShirl]

12. wow

[JHB]

13. Found Mrs. Cruz's special "shoebox," did he?

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Ew

[Adrahil]

15. Ted wants to institute a "two shakes" rule in the men's bathroom..

Anything more is playing with it.

[arely staircase]

64. Funny

[AxionExcel]

17. How did Teddy Boy (R) get to be such an expert on prostitutes & sex-toys ?

I mean, really. What's the deal with that?

[SammyWinstonJack]

32. Right?

[msanthrope]

18. Poor Mrs. Cruz. nt

[NurseJackie]

19. He thinks about sex a LOT doesn't he?

[hobbit709]

21. He has to think about it since that's about as close as he's going to get.

[hobbit709]

20. JuanitaJean's take on this

http://juanitajean.com/and-ever-since-then-ted-cruz-has-been-our-dildo/

[ebayfool]

30. Love JuanitaJean!

[Helen Borg]

22. Only solution: chopping off people's hands, I'm afraid.

[nxylas]

23. Glad he has his priorities straight

There is literally no more important issue in the world today than ensuring that people go to jail for polishing their helmets.

[sendero]

24. "like hiring a prostitute"?

Well he should know.

[rjsquirrel]

27. Picture Ted Cruz jerking off

Because you just know he does. He's a human male.

Now imagine his fantasy life.

Sorry about your breakfast and your keyboard.

[A HERETIC I AM]

38. NO! I'm not gonna!

Oh......fuck.....

DAMMIT!

[kairos12]

58. Thanks. My night is ruined. Possibly my life.

[RoccoR5955]

28. How the hell do you enforce it?

What an idiot!

[3catwoman3]

31. Well, that should attract...

...a lot of undecided voters.

Good luck with that, Ted.

[HereSince1628]

33. Seems like he is one that would know the necessary details

to make that comparison

[csziggy]

35. Texas already lost on a law banning bedroom activities

Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. The Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas and, by extension, invalidated sodomy laws in 13 other states, making same-sex sexual activity legal in every U.S. state and territory. The Court, with a five-justice majority, overturned its previous ruling on the same issue in the 1986 case Bowers v. Hardwick, where it upheld a challenged Georgia statute and did not find a constitutional protection of sexual privacy.

Lawrence explicitly overruled Bowers, holding that it had viewed the liberty interest too narrowly. The Court held that intimate consensual sexual conduct was part of the liberty protected by substantive due process under the 14th Amendment. Lawrence invalidated similar laws throughout the United States that criminalized sodomy between consenting adults acting in private, whatever the sex of the participants.[1]

The case attracted much public attention, and a large number of amici curiae ("friends of the court&quot briefs were filed. Its outcome was celebrated by gay rights advocates, who hoped that further legal advances might result as a consequence.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas#Decision

I hope that this case will aid in overturning all these other privacy invading laws and that they will set further precedents which will backfire on the Republican Puritans!

[Initech]

39. So let's recap the GOP's stance on sex:

- They want to police bathrooms
- They want to make masturbation illegal
- Creepy old douchebags say that they would pose as trans so they could enter the women's bathroom

And yet they're the ones who commit the most sex crimes.

[yuiyoshida]

40. I would like to see how he would enforce it, but he's the Sharia law type...

and if he does become President, he will fu%# us all to the max.

[Ron Obvious]

41. When masturbation is outlawed...

... only outlaws will have to pry it out of my cold, dead hand.

And I unanimous in that.

[Fast Walker 52]

42. he's such a freaking goddamn asshole

[winter is coming]

43. I always wonder about people who spend this much time thinking about other people's sex lives.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if that DC Madam had Cruz's name in her records, and probably not for vanilla sex.

[Major Nikon]

45. I'm surprised Bill O' isn't all over this

[Codeine]

48. He will be in just a sec. . . in a sec. . . almost there. . . almossssst. . . nt

[ohnoyoudidnt]

59. "Hey, Ted. Put your pipe down and get my pipe up." nt

[Codeine]

47. Always thoroughly wash and dry your prostitutes before putting them away. nt

[Visionary]

49. Lmao

Ok Ted Cruz is just plain creepy. The very fact he talks about this crap implies that he's struggling with a lot of deviant urges of his own.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

51. And according to MANY people here at DU, Cruz or Hillary, no difference.

[Warren DeMontague]

61. yeah, and we have people here who will happily parrot this "masturbation is evil" shit if it comes

from someone like Gail Dines.

[3catwoman3]

65. Do I want/need to know who...

...Gail Dines is? I am thinking maybe not.

[ladjf]

52. That is some crazy logic by Cruz. nt

[louis-t]

54. Trump people are saving up the DC Madam stuff.

That could get interesting. He gives me the creeps.

[Half-Century Man]

56. Poor analogy

You buy sex toys to keep.
You rent time with prostitutes.


Unless Ted's experiences are just renting sex toys..............I just pictured the weirdest foul smelling knock off of Blockbuster ever.
Or
He is involved in human trafficking, in which case he did buy sex workers to keep.

In either case....go away Ted. Or rather, simply go away Ted.

[Dont call me Shirley]

57. Ted needs some major therapy!

[Zira]

62. Usually people like that end up being pedophiles... just saying

he protests too much

[Zira]

63. And isn't this going to lose him about half his base?