This, That and the Other, a Smyrna head shop and merchant of sex toys, claims it hasn't sold a dildo since June of 2000. It's not because of drooping demand. It's just that selling a device designed to turn you on is illegal in Georgia.
Restrictive laws relating to sex are nothing new here.
For years it was a crime to engage in adultery or sodomy. And Atlanta police have charged an Atlanta-based fantasy shop, Inserection, at least eight times with selling sexual devices, a misdemeanor. Inserection has been subject to police raids during which clerks and the owner were arrested, and has filed numerous lawsuits in DeKalb, Fulton and Cobb counties. The statute is an ongoing concern for Inserection owner Michael Morrison, whose attorney has argued against the law in state Supreme Court, and lost. The case has attracted the attention of the American Civil Liberties Union, which dispatched one of its attorneys to Atlanta April 16 to argue for the plaintiffs.