You can sell sex toys, just don't call them sex toys.

by **Jim0322** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 12:28 pm

This is so stupid. Don't the police in Texas have anything better to do????? ((edited out due to inaccuracy)) ...explaining how to use a vibrator to interested adults is a crime.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/07/20/toy.charges.reut/index.html

DALLAS, Texas (Reuters) -- A Texas woman charged with violating obscenity laws for selling a sexual toy and explaining to her customer how to use it has had the case against her dismissed, court officials said on Monday.

Joanne Webb, a mother of three and a former schoolteacher in the town of Burleson near Forth Worth, was facing up to a year in jail after she sold a vibrator at a private party to two undercover police officers posing as a married couple.

The case received national attention because it touched off a debate on whether a person should be jailed for selling vibrators to adults.

Johnson County Attorney Bill Moore said in a statement that his office last week asked a judge to dismiss the case in order to prevent the county from wasting resources on it.

Texas law allows for the sale of sexual toys as long as they are billed as novelties. But when a person markets the items in a direct manner that shows how they are used in sex, it is considered criminal obscenity.

by **Mugzy** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 12:55 pm

Umm..

http://www.brennanjohnson.com/law/texas-open-container-law.htm

Oh, we also started driving cars and not riding horses just last year!

by **LeVar Burton** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:11 pm

Yeah, I'm still pissed about that container law. Next thing you know they're gonna take away our right to have saloon shootouts. And I think this whole sex thing actually happened in Burleson where the cops really don't have anything better to do.

by **Murgatroyd** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:19 pm

Yeah, and I hear tell that teaching that EVILution is going to be illegal again in some states, if some people get their way.

Maybe we should start burning witches again too.

"Hey man, I got some good stuff here, man.. crack, weed, acid, vibrators.. whatever you want, man.."

by **LeVar Burton** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:28 pm

We don't need your book learnin' tellin' us we come from monkeys.

by **Jim0322** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:34 pm

Originally posted by Mugzy
Umm..

http://www.brennanjohnson.com/law/texas-open-container-law.htm

Oh, we also started driving cars and not riding horses just last year!

Thanks for the correction Mugzy.

I think the cops who arranged the undercover dildo sting operation should be reprimanded for wasting taxpayer resources.

Jim

by **Sir Loin** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 2:15 pm

YEEEEEEE HHHAAAAAAA.....

so there was a chick that asked how to use a vibrator? or was that the undercover officer? either way......I LIKE IT!!

by **Jim0322** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:17 pm

Originally posted by Sir Loin
YEEEEEEE HHHAAAAAAA.....

so there was a chick that asked how to use a vibrator? or was that the undercover officer? either way......I LIKE IT!!

I think they should have videotaped the whole undercover operation and broadcast it on Cops.

You can sell sex toys, just don't call them sex toys.

You can sell sex toys, just don't call them sex toys.

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