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There was a collective shout of glee when the news broke, and just in time for Valentine's Day. If you didn't have a lover in Texas up until today, you were pretty much limited to the produce aisle or your own ten digits.

No more, thanks to the Federal Court of Appeals that overturned the law banning sex toy sales across the state.

In its decision Tuesday, the appeals court cited Lawrence and Garner v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 opinion that struck down bans on consensual sex between same-sex couples.

"Just as in Lawrence, the state here wants to use its laws to enforce a public moral code by restricting private intimate conduct," the appeals judges wrote. "The case is not about public sex. It is not about controlling commerce in sex. It is about controlling what people do in the privacy of their own homes because the state is morally opposed to a certain type of consensual private intimate conduct. This is an insufficient justification after Lawrence."

I'm guessing the shelves are pretty much bare of EverReady's and K-Y in Texas tonight.

Cucumber sales, however, have no doubt plummeted.

Go figure.