Posted by mikezillion at February 14th, 2007

We just received yet another disappointed letter from a customer, asking why (oh why!) we can’t ship our adult DVD’s to Texas. Local regulations make it possible for Texas to reach out and arrest us right here in San Francisco if we ship products which violate local community standards across state lines, so we err on the side of caution. Now two new bills being proposed in that state would tax adult businesses to fund sex crime reduction efforts. Nobody is making any direct connection between consuming adult media and committing sex crimes, but vague comments about objectification of women seem adequate to justify the tax. I just hope that such a tax also establishes that adult entertainment is officially sanctioned by the Texas government, so we can sell to all those Texan porn lovers.