The ban on certain sex toy sales in Alabama goes into effect. It’s not the only ban of it’s kind. In fact, according to the article linked above, there are at least six other states that have similar laws. It’s amazing, guns are legal, but dildos are not.

I was recently asked by a reporter for the Italian Marie Claire if I thought we had come a long way in our acceptance of sexual stuff. And while I think we’re more open about sex, at least thanks to the Internet and the fact that women have more of a voice now than ever, I still think that sex talk is one of those cyclical things. The kind where once it’s accepted, it becomes unacceptable somewhere else, and then it’s accepted again, unaccepted..etc…I find that for as far as we come, there’s always somebody or something holding us back sexually. Betty Dodson mentioned this idea of time binding to me and when I think of sex, I think of this:

“Time-binding: The human ability to pass information and knowledge between generations at an accelerating rate. Alfred Korzybski claimed this to be a unique capacity, separating us from other animals. Animals pass knowledge, but not at an exponential rate, i.e., each generation of animals does things pretty much in the same way as the previous generation. For example, humans used to look for food, now we grow or raise it. Other animals are still looking, i.e., they don’t consciously grow or raise food.”

So this whole Alabama thing, it makes me think about other things, and how forward we move, and how maybe each step forward is another step back. Or maybe it’s two steps forward, one step back…or maybe that’s me referencing Paula Abdul..which in and of itself isn’t a very good thing.