Alabama novelty-store owners are ready to challenge an appeals court ruling that upheld the state’s ban on sex toys.

Doris Fedrick, owner of BG Novelties in Montgomery, would lose half of her store’s inventory if the courts upheld the ban. Not surprisingly, she hopes the courts rule in favor of legalizing sex toys.

“It’s not a good thing. That’s just part of the government intruding on your privacy. It’s big brother looking over your shoulder,” she said.

Fedrick also expressed anger that, while sex toys are contraband, guns and alcohol are sold legally.

“You can’t go to the bank and hold up the bank with a vibrator. Who are you hurting (selling sex toys)? Who is this law going to benefit?” she asked.

I think we may even have had a case of man trying to rob a bank with a dildo, but I digress. I’m not sure what the public interest really is in this case. Rather than asking who the law benefits, maybe we should be asking who the sale of these items hurts.

**UPDATE: Hit and Run notes this development as well.

**UPDATE: Even Glenn Reynolds took notice and gave a rare mention to Alabama.

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