Texas housewife busted for hawking erotic toys
Yo! What is up with Texas? The state needs to loosen up a bit.
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A Texas housewife is in big trouble with the law for selling a vibrator to a pair of undercover cops, and the Brisbane vibrator company she works for says Texas is an "antiquated place'' with more than its share of "prudes.''
Joanne Webb, a former fifth-grade teacher and mother of three, was in a county court in Cleburne, Texas, on Monday to answer obscenity charges for selling the vibrator to undercover narcotics officers posing as a dysfunctional married couple in search of a sex aid.
Webb, a saleswoman for Passion Parties of Brisbane, faces a year in jail and a $4,000 fine if convicted.
"What I did was not obscene,'' Webb said. ""What's obscene is that the government is taking action about what we do in our bedrooms.''
The arrest of Webb in Cleburne, a small town 50 miles southwest of Dallas, was the first time that any of the company's 3,000 sales consultants have been busted, said Pat Davis, the president of Passion Parties. She said the company was outraged by the charges and stood behind Webb.
"It makes you wonder what they're thinking out there in Texas,'' Davis said. "They sound like prudes, with antiquated laws. They must have all their street crime under control in Texas if they're going to spend tax money arresting us.''
For the past year, Webb has sold the company's line of vibrators, gels, lubricants, strawberry-flavored nipple cream and "edible passion puddings.'' The merchandise is offered for sale in private, Tupperware-style parties to women who may be reluctant to visit an adult novelty store.
Among the company's top items are a $12 jar of passion pudding in chocolate and strawberry flavors ("apply head to toe, wherever you want your lover to linger"), a $9 jar of nipple cream in strawberry, raspberry and watermelon flavors, and battery-powered vibrators that sell for $17 to $140. The company also offers such lubricants as Slippery Stuff ($13), Lickety Lube ($12) and Lucky Stiff ($11.50), and a $22 battery-powered item for men known as Jelly Julie ("with soft jelly silicone lips").
"Our products are not obscene,'' Davis said. "All we're trying to do is help people build loving relationships.''
Webb suspects she got in trouble because she ruffled feathers in town by daring to join the Chamber of Commerce with her sex toy business. She said her arrest had caused her husband of 20 years to suffer a nervous breakdown.
Webb said she was amazed that the town's narcotics squad would be put on the case.
"We have a real problem with drugs in our schools,'' she said, "and they're using our narcotics officers to entrap me for selling a vibrator.''
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGEA3O52I1.DTL
A Texas housewife is in big trouble with the law for selling a vibrator to a pair of undercover cops, and the Brisbane vibrator company she works for says Texas is an "antiquated place'' with more than its share of "prudes.''
Joanne Webb, a former fifth-grade teacher and mother of three, was in a county court in Cleburne, Texas, on Monday to answer obscenity charges for selling the vibrator to undercover narcotics officers posing as a dysfunctional married couple in search of a sex aid.
Webb, a saleswoman for Passion Parties of Brisbane, faces a year in jail and a $4,000 fine if convicted.
"What I did was not obscene,'' Webb said. ""What's obscene is that the government is taking action about what we do in our bedrooms.''
The arrest of Webb in Cleburne, a small town 50 miles southwest of Dallas, was the first time that any of the company's 3,000 sales consultants have been busted, said Pat Davis, the president of Passion Parties. She said the company was outraged by the charges and stood behind Webb.
"It makes you wonder what they're thinking out there in Texas,'' Davis said. "They sound like prudes, with antiquated laws. They must have all their street crime under control in Texas if they're going to spend tax money arresting us.''
For the past year, Webb has sold the company's line of vibrators, gels, lubricants, strawberry-flavored nipple cream and "edible passion puddings.'' The merchandise is offered for sale in private, Tupperware-style parties to women who may be reluctant to visit an adult novelty store.
Among the company's top items are a $12 jar of passion pudding in chocolate and strawberry flavors ("apply head to toe, wherever you want your lover to linger"), a $9 jar of nipple cream in strawberry, raspberry and watermelon flavors, and battery-powered vibrators that sell for $17 to $140. The company also offers such lubricants as Slippery Stuff ($13), Lickety Lube ($12) and Lucky Stiff ($11.50), and a $22 battery-powered item for men known as Jelly Julie ("with soft jelly silicone lips").
"Our products are not obscene,'' Davis said. "All we're trying to do is help people build loving relationships.''
Webb suspects she got in trouble because she ruffled feathers in town by daring to join the Chamber of Commerce with her sex toy business. She said her arrest had caused her husband of 20 years to suffer a nervous breakdown.
Webb said she was amazed that the town's narcotics squad would be put on the case.
"We have a real problem with drugs in our schools,'' she said, "and they're using our narcotics officers to entrap me for selling a vibrator.''
Comments
Originally posted by thuh Freak
why is it a crime? why did they spend the resources going after her?
I am asking the same thing.
Fellowship
What people do in their living room, is their OWN business. As long as everyone involved (in any sex etc) agrees with what's on and ENJOYS it (and it does not involve animals etc), it is no fscking business of the state.
I feel like going to buy a vibrator now, and then organizing a protest march somewhere here .. anyone wants to join?
How much money is she going to have to spend to defend herself? And how much crap is she going to get from the fundamentalists in her town?
Originally posted by chu_bakka
And how much crap is she going to get from the fundamentalists in her town?
I was thinking about how much business she's going to get from the fundamentalists in her town.
Looked mightily similar to a carrot! Maybe she could use this defence
To resume it, his goal was to bring the concept of the digital hub in our bedrooms ...
Originally posted by Powerdoc
It's a bad new for Steve Jobs, reliable sources tell AI that he had a huge project for 2004.
To resume it, his goal was to bring the concept of the digital hub in our bedrooms ...
LOL
Originally posted by Powerdoc
It's a bad new for Steve Jobs, reliable sources tell AI that he had a huge project for 2004.
To resume it, his goal was to bring the concept of the digital hub in our bedrooms ...
what a perv
then in 2005 the revised iOrgasm-uOrgasm
LOL
Originally posted by FellowshipChurch iBook
I think It was the iOrgasm device ?
then in 2005 the revised iOrgasm-uOrgasm
LOL
And don't forget the new professional alu line, with more power ...
Steve Jobs was right : "macs are sexy"
Originally posted by Powerdoc
It's a bad new for Steve Jobs, reliable sources tell AI that he had a huge project for 2004.
To resume it, his goal was to bring the concept of the digital hub in our bedrooms ...
Feel different. .. swithc ads then, switch to iBrators?
an I 4 - I can't wait to get the I 5 ...
Maybe thatshwy thre isn't an apple store in texas?
Originally posted by Powerdoc
It's a bad new for Steve Jobs, reliable sources tell AI that he had a huge project for 2004.
To resume it, his goal was to bring the concept of the digital hub in our bedrooms ...
He even had a commercial made!
Anyone here a lawyer?
Joanne
Originally posted by Whoring Slut
I'm not exactly sure what I am going to do. I'd sure appreciate some suggestions... I mean, all I did was sell a vibrator!
Move to some civilized state or country.
Originally posted by chu_bakka
Yo! What is up with Texas? The state needs to loosen up a bit.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGEA3O52I1.DTL
A Texas housewife is in big trouble with the law for selling a vibrator to a pair of undercover cops, and the Brisbane vibrator company she works for says Texas is an "antiquated place'' with more than its share of "prudes.''
Joanne Webb, a former fifth-grade teacher and mother of three, was in a county court in Cleburne, Texas, on Monday to answer obscenity charges for selling the vibrator to undercover narcotics officers posing as a dysfunctional married couple in search of a sex aid.
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That's how you know they are cops. Truth is only functional married couples buy sex toys.
Originally posted by Scott
Truth is only functional married couples buy sex toys.
Functional married couple is like Microsoft Security.
DAMNIT!