FDA / Border Patrol Declares Open Season for Cockrings

Citing safety concerns, the FDA said that devices purporting to help with "external penile rigidity" like cock rings and penis pumps can be confiscated at U.S. borders. The reason seems to be that these and some other devices don’t have instructions. The FDA announcement follows a federal ruling in April that said a search of a laptop did not constitute an unreasonable search and seizure. So now they feel they can search and take whatever they want from us.

In response, a watchdog group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives filed briefs claiming there have to be some limits on the government’s ability to acquire information.

“Under the government’s reasoning,” the brief said, “border authorities could systematically collect all of the information contained on every laptop computer, BlackBerry and other electronic device carried across our national borders by every traveler, American or foreign.” That is, the brief said, “simply electronic surveillance after the fact.”