Texas sex toy obscenity charge dropped
 

cnn
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.

Just how much instructions does one need with a vibrating object shaped like a dick?:glugglug

This Texas anti-sextoy case should have been a landmark case, but ends up just being a "we don't have time for this" case. It's too bad that the law was not challenged and thrown out. This ruling only means that it will be visited in court another day...
Personally, we ship to Texas (unlike some of our competitors) and always have. We always expected to go to the mat some day over our decisions to ship anywhere within the United States - but nothing has ever happened.
I'm glad for the defendant - if you have never had to sit in court and let a jury decide if you committed an obscenity then you are lucky.
I've had the pleasure twice and I don't wish it on anyone - BUT, this is our business and no one is going to tell us we can't do it.

that bitch should have gotten life in max secruity prision..

wtf is this world comin too! this major

Land of the free, my ass.

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