Something about fears of overloading the sewage system in a city crammed with more people than your entire cud chewing state causing them to be made illegal in the early 1970s and as someone already told you till 1997 although despite that they're still ultra rare (as in no one I know has ever seen one.)
Watch the video. I get the sneaking suspicion that Ms Big City Mouse done figured how that dang thang worked after the couple of weeks she had to play with it before goofing around about it on tape.
As for child abuse, laws regarding such and the legal and social worker framework to address it is one of them new-fangled Progressive's initiatives ushered in the early 20th Century.
Traditionally (as in Conservative), the response tended to be in the manner of it as a personal or family matter, or even private, as exposure tended to bring shame to victims and their families. Thus the basic recourse was to turn ye olde blind eye and pretend it didn't happen.
We still see this phenomenom with traditionalist societies such as the Amish, fringe Mormon groups, Hasidic communities, Indian Reservations... To save face, these, like the Catholic Church or Boy Scouts, are reluctant to report abuse, claiming them to be internal matters best handled by their own.
Not that this is restricted only to the aforementioned, as Asian and Hispanic males living in broader society tend to underreport such abuse more than other ethnicities, the stigma and the notion that they should be tough enough to protect themselves causing many to keep it to themselves.
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