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18 Tex. J. Women & L. 263 (2008-2009)
Good Vibrations: Liberating Sexuality from the Commercial Regulation of Sexual Devices

handle is hein.journals/tjwl18 and id is 267 raw text is: Texas Journal of Women and the Law Volume 18 GOOD VIBRATIONS: LIBERATING SEXUALITY FROM THE COMMERCIAL REGULATION OF SEXUAL DEVICES Alana Chazan* Introduction ............................................................................................... 263 I. Sexual Deviants, Hysterics, and Criminals: The Codification of Sexuality and the Subsequent Fight for Sexual Privacy ................. 268 A. Advent of the Hysterical Woman ............................................. 268 B. Framing a Right to Sexual Privacy ......................................... 271 C. The Sexual Freedom Cases from Griswold to Casey .......... 275 D. Varying Frameworks of Substantive Due Process: Glucksberg vs. Lawrence ......................................................... 278 II. A Constitutional Right to Intimate Sexual Privacy and Bodily A utonom y ....................................................................................... 28 1 A. The Sexual Device Cases and the Medical Value Argument.. .281 B. The Texas Sexual Device Cases Prior to Lawrence ................ 286 C. The Alabama Cases from Williams I to Williams VI .............. 288 D. Liberating Sexuality from the Commercial Regulation of Sexual Devices: Reliable Consultants, Inc. v. Earle ................ 293 III. The Future of Substantive Due Process and the Commercial Regulation of Sexual Devices ......................................................... 297 A. Reliable Consultants and the Issue of Judicial Review ........... 297 B. After Williams and Reliable Consultants-the Supreme C ourt? ...................................................................................... 300 IV . C onclusion ........................................................................................... 302 Introduction Some governments fear sex toys' inherent promise of liberation, and Bay Area Legal Aid Equal Justice Works Fellow funded by Greenburg Traurig, L.L.P. J.D., City University of New York School of Law, 2009; M.A. Political Science, New School for Social Research, 2005; B.A. University of California Santa Cruz, 2002. The author wishes to thank Professor Ruthann Robson for her support, feedback, and guidance, as well as Taylor Xavier and the past and present staff of Babeland for their inspiration and encouragement.

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