Debate: Ban on sex toys

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Should sex toys be banned?

Background and Context of Debate:

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Morality: Are sex toys immoral?

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Pro

1. Catholics believe that all sex is a sin, that is why priest are celibate. If all sex is a sin, then orgasms that don't produce children are extra sinful.
2. Each community should be able to ban what they want, and people should be able to vote with their feet. If San Fransisco wants to ban gay jokes, and Salt Lake to Ban Sex toys, lets see which city does better over the next 1,000 years. You can't just ask if sex toys should be banned, without some sort of context. If 98% of people think that something should be banned, then democracy says to let them ban it. The real issue is if sex toys are bad or not.

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Con

1. The morality of an issue shouldn't come into play of it's legality, when between consenting adults.
2. Its not fair that men generally are able to achieve sexual pleasure more easily than women. Sex toys are often able to do for women, what happens much easier for men.
3. When a marriage involves someone with lower sex drive, sex toys can assist the person with a lower sex drive, to assist them share in more unifying expressions of desire between the couple.

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Human sexuality: Are sex toys inimical?

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Pro

• Sex toys are unnatural. Using mechanical devices during very intimate moments is both depersonalizing sexual experience and unnatural, as they can serve as poor substitutes for interpersonal relationships.

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Con

• Sex toys are an opportunity to explore one's sexual preferences.

• Sex toys help fight libido decline. Sex toys give genital stimulation which is healthy, especially for women experiencing libido decline.

• Sex toys help fight loneliness. Sex toys help partners to control sexual urge especially on nights when they long for their partner (who is away for the weekend perhaps). They offer an alternative to loneliness and discourages infidelity in relationships.

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Health concerns: Are sex toys harmful?

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Pro

• Sex toys safety is questioned by scientists. "Sex toys safety questioned", by Pamela Keith, QMI News, December 2009 Inexpensive sex toys are very likely to contain dangerous chemicals, such as phtalates, that can be inimical to people's health. (See also "Sex Toys Need to Be Safe", by Hunter West, December 2009)

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