Case against sex toys woman dropped

An obscenity charge has been dropped against a woman who received nationwide attention in the United States when she was arrested for selling two sex toys to undercover police officers posing as a couple.

A judge dismissed the case against Joanne Webb, Johnson County Attorney Bill Moore said in a statement in Cleburne, Texas.

He said he asked the judge for the dismissal to prevent wasting county resources, but did not say when the dismissal occurred.

Webb, a former senior teacher, started selling erotic toys and other adult products last year.

The Passion Parties Inc consultant hosts what she calls “Tupperware-type parties” for suburban housewives who feel more comfortable buying marital aids in a private home than at an adult bookstore or on the Internet.

Webb was arrested on November 13, about a month after the undercover officers approached her at her husband’s business in Burleson, about 10 miles south of Fort Worth, and bought two products. Had she been convicted of violating Texas’ obscenity law, she could have been sentenced to a year in jail.

According to the state’s obscenity code, an obscene device is a simulated sexual organ or an item designed to stimulate the genitals. Adult stores get around the law by posting signs that say “sold only as novelties”.