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"= Vox Populi ©" |
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11 Feb 2004 05:18:31 PM |
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=> Just how Inbred and Ignorant are People from GW Bu$h's Texas ...? <= |
Texas mom faces trial for selling sex toys
DALLAS, Texas (Reuters) --Joanne Webb is a mother of three, a Baptist, a booster
of the town of Burleson, Texas, and a former schoolteacher. She also faces trial
for being a smut merchant.
Webb, 43, was arrested in November by two undercover police officers for selling
sexual toys and charged with violating Texas obscenity laws. She could face up
to a year in jail and a fine of $4,000 if convicted.
Webb is a representative for Passion Parties, a California company marketing
potions, lotions and sexual toys sold at gatherings that mimic Tupperware
parties.
Women over 18 meet in a private home for what the company calls a "girl's night
out of giggles and fun," during which products designed to enhance sex lives are
sold.
It was not a secret in Burleson, a small town near Fort Worth, that Webb sold
vibrators, edible creams and racy lingerie.
But not everyone was happy about it.
According to reports in the local media, police said a few residents, who they
declined to identify, lodged complaints. A few prominent citizens with strong
Christian beliefs were angered by Webb and her activities and asked police to
investigate, local media reported.
Two undercover police officers posed as a couple trying to spice up their love
life and Webb sold the woman a vibrator. Webb instructed her on its use and
explained how it could enhance lovemaking.
That's where she got into trouble.
Texas law allows for the sale of sexual toys as long as they are billed as
novelties, BeAnn Sisemore, a Fort Worth attorney representing Webb, told the
Houston Chronicle before a gag order was issued by the judge presiding over the
case. But when a person markets sex toys in a direct manner that shows their
actual role in sex, then that person is subject to obscenity charges, she told
the newspaper.
Webb said she turned to Passion Parties to supplement her family's income when
her husband's construction business went into a slump.
"For women to become self-confident in their sexuality ... that's what I'm in
this for," Webb told the Dallas Morning News before the gag order was imposed.
She added that because of her arrest, she has found herself in a role she never
imagined -- a public advocate for allowing women and couples to make personal
decisions about their sex lives.
Sex, lives and passion parties
Police and Johnson County prosecutors declined to discuss the case, even before
the gag order was issued.
Gloria Gillaspie, a pastor at Lighthouse Church in Burleson, said she has met
and counseled some women who had talked to Webb about the products she sold.
"It was causing problems with their marriages," she said.
Gillaspie said Webb and her family were asked to leave two churches in town. She
did not name the churches.
"They didn't want to comply with what was really Christian conduct and that is
why they were asked to leave those churches," Gillaspie said.
But James Brown, a member of the local chamber of commerce and an acquaintance
of Webb's, told Reuters: "Most of the people in town support Joanne."
Sisemore said she wants to use this case to overturn obscenity laws in Texas and
other states.
"I will fight this all the way with her," Sisemore told the Houston Chronicle.
"This is the first time I have felt that my government has overstepped its
boundaries."
Sisemore has said she plans to file a federal lawsuit challenging Texas
obscenity laws, which she said are so vague that they could be used to prosecute
anyone who uses or sells condoms designed to provide stimulation for sexual
pleasure.
Patricia Davis, a 59-year-old grandmother and president of Passion Parties,
said: "We are very proud of Joanne Webb. She believes in the mission of the
company and she is doing a really nice job of representing us."
Passion Parties has been doing booming business. The company racked up $20
million in sales in 2003 and saw 30 months of consecutive growth above the 50
percent mark.
The company has representatives in every state and is doing some of its best
business in California, New York and the Bible Belt, a section of the United
States where Christian beliefs and clergy are influential.
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| User: "I Am Your Clayton, Luke!" |
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| Title: Re: => Just how Inbred and Ignorant are People from GW Bu$h's Texas ...? <= |
11 Feb 2004 06:36:15 PM |
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"=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li> wrote in message
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Texas mom faces trial for selling sex toys
DALLAS, Texas (Reuters) --Joanne Webb is a mother of three, a Baptist, a
booster
of the town of Burleson, Texas, and a former schoolteacher. She also faces
trial
for being a smut merchant.
<snip story>
Didn't the Supreme Court shoot down that ***** a few years ago?
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| User: "Dr. DuFonet" |
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| Title: Re: => Just how Inbred and Ignorant are People from GW Bu$h's Texas ...? <= |
11 Feb 2004 07:09:14 PM |
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"I Am Your Clayton, Luke!" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKnotmyemail.com> wrote in message
news:402ac978$0$15134$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
"=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li> wrote in message
news:mJyWb.203$C%.74966@news.uswest.net...
Texas mom faces trial for selling sex toys
DALLAS, Texas (Reuters) --Joanne Webb is a mother of three, a Baptist, a
booster
of the town of Burleson, Texas, and a former schoolteacher. She also
faces
trial
for being a smut merchant.
<snip story>
Didn't the Supreme Court shoot down that ***** a few years ago?
a lot of things go on that are unconstitutional.
--
:"Everythin's better with DoFunny on it."
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| User: "Dr. DuFonet" |
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| Title: Re: => Just how Inbred and Ignorant are People from GW Bu$h's Texas ...? <= |
12 Feb 2004 10:52:47 AM |
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"Ken Smith" <forget@it.com> wrote in message news:402B0A24.1090604@it.com...
Dr. DuFonet wrote:
"I Am Your Clayton, Luke!" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKnotmyemail.com> wrote in
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"=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li> wrote in message
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Texas mom faces trial for selling sex toys
DALLAS, Texas (Reuters) --Joanne Webb is a mother of three, a Baptist,
a booster
of the town of Burleson, Texas, and a former schoolteacher. She also
faces trial
for being a smut merchant.
<snip story>
Didn't the Supreme Court shoot down that ***** a few years ago?
a lot of things go on that are unconstitutional.
Especially in places like Texas. As they used to say in one of their
ad campaigns, "It's a whole 'nuther cuntry."
And Texas isn't the only state with that problem. Or some would say, that
solution.
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| User: "Steve Knight" |
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| Title: Re: => Just how Inbred and Ignorant are People from GW Bu$h's Texas ...? <= |
11 Feb 2004 06:53:31 PM |
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:18:31 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
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Webb, 43, was arrested in November by two undercover police officers for selling
sexual toys and charged with violating Texas obscenity laws. She could face up
to a year in jail and a fine of $4,000 if convicted.
I know it's been said before but, Texas, where you can own a basement
full of high powered guns and rifles but not one *****.
Warlord Steve
BAAWA
www.sonic.net/~wooly
BAAWA
www.sonic.net/~wooly
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| User: "Paul C. Dickie" |
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| Title: Re: => Just how Inbred and Ignorant are People from GW Bu$h's Texas ...? <= |
12 Feb 2004 11:10:45 AM |
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In article <3hjl20hm9a3augjdqufuj6isn3ghqmudkk@4ax.com>, Steve Knight
<wooooly@sonic.net> writes
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:18:31 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
Webb, 43, was arrested in November by two undercover police officers for
selling
sexual toys and charged with violating Texas obscenity laws. She could face up
to a year in jail and a fine of $4,000 if convicted.
I know it's been said before but, Texas, where you can own a basement
full of high powered guns and rifles but not one *****.
Not even a self-loading *****?
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< Paul >
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: => Just how Inbred and Ignorant are People from GW Bu$h's Texas ...? <= |
12 Feb 2004 04:36:43 PM |
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:10:45 +0000, "Paul C. Dickie"
<pcd@bozzie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In article <3hjl20hm9a3augjdqufuj6isn3ghqmudkk@4ax.com>, Steve Knight
<wooooly@sonic.net> writes
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:18:31 -0700, "=> Vox Populi ©" <vox@popu.li>
wrote:
Webb, 43, was arrested in November by two undercover police officers for
selling
sexual toys and charged with violating Texas obscenity laws. She could face up
to a year in jail and a fine of $4,000 if convicted.
I know it's been said before but, Texas, where you can own a basement
full of high powered guns and rifles but not one *****.
Not even a self-loading *****?
Buggered if I know why.
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