You are now entering Texas,please set your watch back 100 years.

[taranaki]

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.''
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[NSX-R-SSJ20K]

thats funny cuz i knew a chick who had 6 vibrators she lived in texas. For personnal use.

Seems a bit stupid cuz they sell them in the sex shops etc.

[YogsVR4]

I had seen this story and commented on it, but it must have been on another site.

I'm glad the cops don't have anything better to do like guard the boarder or investigate rapes and murders. Its important to keep the streets safe from sex toys

I wonder if prosecutor knows how moronic he and the cops look on this one.

[TexasF355F1]

Just another thing I have to question myself about my own state. Like Yogs said. They need to worry about protecting the borders and other serious things, not who has a vibrator.

[2strokebloke]

Ah, Texas. "Texas 'as got teh biggest sky, teh biggest sky anywhere - t'ings are big in Texas."
Don't forget that they'll go out of their way to try minors as adults so they can execute them. 'Cause Texas is big.

[YogsVR4]

Topic change? Execute a minor? Sounds good to me. Hope they go screaming.

[2strokebloke]

Hey, we're talking about Texas and being rediculous, aren't we? So it's not entirely off topic. The way I see it, Texas is like America's China.

[YogsVR4]

I think its time to get your perscription updated.

[TexasF355F1]

Originally Posted by 2strokebloke

Hey, we're talking about Texas and being rediculous, aren't we? So it's not entirely off topic. The way I see it, Texas is like America's China.

Right

[Sean]

It's nice to know that they've taken care of all the narcotics problems in the state.

[MagicRat]

A friend of mine in Dallas says the local papers there make a big issue over the police spending an inordinate amount of time in undercover investigations of local strip clubs.........

Perhaps they were just buying suitable undercover 'weapons' from the housewife!!