Kansas Is Auctioning Off Sex Toys

You’ve got to give it to Kansas
for ingenuity, I guess: the Sunflower State will soon be
selling thousands of “adult DVDs, novelty items,” and more
online in a public auction that The Topeka
Capital-Journal describes as likely to bring “a financial
windfall”. The toys were seized from United Outlets LLC., a Kansas
company charged with tax evasion. The state made a deal with the
company’s owner, Larry Minkoff, to return the merchandise so he
could sell it at an auction, with all revenue going back to the
state. From the Capital-Journal:

The online site lists about 400 lots—individual lots can contain
dozens of items—that include the Pipedream Fantasy Love Swing,
books, hundreds of DVDs, sex and drinking games, a wide assortment
of sexually oriented equipment, carrying cases for devices, the
Glass Pleasure Wand, bundles of lingerie and the Cyberskin Foot
Stroker.

One of the lots contained 50 “premium” vibrators and a teddy
bear. The bidding was at $10.

Also available: two sets of sparkling sequin lounge pants, sizes
large and small, as well as the Good Girl, Bad Girl Wrist
Cuffs.

The auction site is equip-bid.com. (You’re
welcome.) 

Kansas Senate Minority Leader
Anthony Hensley (D-Topeka) criticized Gov. Sam Brownback’s
administration for “selling pornography to fill the gap in the
state budget created by his reckless income tax cuts.” But while
the administration doesn’t “agree with the type of business
involved here,” said Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley, “it was
nonetheless a legal business that was closed due to failure to pay
taxes. The state cannot legally destroy the property. Returning the
property to the owner would have rewarded the business that
violated state tax law. This is the same process used by previous
administrations.”