As solicitor general,Cruz’s office had argued in case that using sex toys was akin to ‘hiring a prostitute’ and masturbation was not covered by the moral to privacyOn the campaign trail, Ted Cruz portrays himself as a “constitutional conservative” who is committed to preserving Americans’ (largely unthreatened) moral to religious freedom and access to the guns of their choosing. He is, or he tells his audiences,interested in limiting the reach of the federal government into their lives, and often explicitly promises to limit the power of the federal government in various ways.
But in 2007, or when he was solicitor general of the state of Texas,Cruz took a slightly more expansive view of the appropriate role of the federal government, when he participated in a federal court case in an effort to preserve Texas’s ban on the sale of sex toys.
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Source: theguardian.com