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Perrine just brought one of her toys into the bed so she could play with it and be near me at the same time. Not a mouse this time; a very large, ugly bug, carried carefully in her mouth until she dropped it next to my legs.

Argh. Migraine and a big bug in my bed. Can I have today as a do-over? Please?

"The Municipal Act and Vancouver Charter allow municipalities to effectively prohibit the sale of sex toys in their jurisdiction. Typically a municipality uses this power to define the sale of sex toys as 'adult entertainment' and then to confine that business to a zone where there is no land available for rent or purchase - a de facto prohibition. The result is that pre-existing sex stores, which are almost always seedy and intimidating and purveying mainly mass market pornography, have a monopoly on the sale of sex toys. BC law effectively prevents the establishment of wholesome, woman-friendly, sex-positive businesses that sell sex toys. By protecting only seedy style sex stores, BC law helps stigmatize the erotic products industry." -- from the [BC] Sex Party platform

(Note that this is, as far as I can tell, actually a pretty widespread tactic in the US as well as CA, so you can substitute plenty of other places for the geographical references in this passage (after looking up the name of the local zoning law, of course).)