Slate's Jurisprudence: Alabama's Sex Toy Ban

By Noah Adams

Published August 2, 2004 at 10:00 PM MDT

The state of Alabama forbids the sale of sex toys, a restriction that was recently upheld in federal court. Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick joins NPR's Noah Adams to talk about the constitutional issues involved in buying and selling so-called adult products.

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Noah Adams, long-time co-host of NPR's All Things Considered, brings more than three decades of radio experience to his current job as a contributing correspondent for NPR's National Desk., focusing on the low-wage workforce, farm issues, and the Katrina aftermath. Now based in Ohio, he travels extensively for his reporting assignments, a position he's held since 2003.

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