I've tried to research this on the web, and it's confusing. There are lots of news references to the Georgia Ban, but nothing that gives you the actual law. The closest I could find that links to the actual law is a legal article saying the law had been
overturned in 2006 in
This That and the Other Gift v. Cobb County, Ga., No. 04-16419 (11th Cir. Feb. 15, 2006.)
And from
the ruling in that case:
Quote:
A. Georgia’s Obscenity Statute
As emphasized by the defendants’ brief, the Georgia legislature enacted
O.C.G.A. § 16-12-80 with the “main purpose” of “advanc[ing] the government’s
interest in promoting public morality.” Toward that end, § 16-12-80 regulates the
distribution of obscene material, in relevant part, as follows:
(a) A person commits the offense of distributing obscene material
when he sells, lends, rents, leases, gives, advertises, publishes,
exhibits, or otherwise disseminates to any person any obscene
material of any description . . . .
. . .
(c) Any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation
of human genital organs is obscene material under this Code section.
. . .
(e) It is an affirmative defense under this Code section that dissemination of
the material was restricted to:
(1) A person associated with an institution of higher learning,
either as a member of the faculty or a matriculated student,
teaching or pursuing a course of study related to such material;
or
(2) A person whose receipt of such material was authorized in
writing by a licensed medical practitioner or psychiatrist.
O.C.G.A. § 16-12-80.
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Maybe they passed a new one.