<p>It's intrusive enough when police arrest someone in a public place, but worse when the police turn their sights indoors, to places where people choose to be exposed to sex.</p> <p>Chippendales never had a problem with authorities -- until it came to Lubbock, Texas. Ten minutes before their show, the police told the dancers, "Don't ever simulate a sex act."</p> <p>The dancers did their usual show and then ventured out into the crowd. The police then shut down the show and took the dancers to jail.</p> <p>The crowd was angry. "City council sucks!"</p> <p>Within a week of the Chippendales arrest, three murders occurred in Lubbock. Wouldn't those police officers have been better used elsewhere?</p> <p>Some states have laws that creep right into the bedroom. In Alabama, legislators banned the sale of sex toys. That upset Dave Smith, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5wg44l">whose wife owns Pleasures, "Your One Stop Romance Shop."</a></p> <p>"In the state of Alabama I can buy a gun. I can carry it in my pocket. ... But if I buy this [sex toy], someone could get arrested!" Smith said.</p> John Stoseel, Townhall.com sex law crime criminal government rights dildo vibrator toy alabama liberal conservative libertarian <p>Is this man a terrorist?</p> the-feed 1 2008-07-23T14:01:09-04:00 <p>Across America mature, consenting, autonomous adults are running into a legal crackdown on sex. Strippers are arrested. Citizens are prevented from buying vibrators. Why do our country's lawmakers care what adults do in their spare time?</p> 10 1339 the-war-on-sex 2008-07-23T14:01:23-04:00 true false true false false #<Image:0x2ab3874e0100> 2008-09-18T06:03:49-04:00 http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/07/23/sex_police?page=1 11 290