In 1973 the state legislature of the U.S. state of Texas passed Section 43.21 (known as the obscenity statute) which, in part, prohibits the sale or promotion of ""Obscene device" mean[ing] a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs."
Although Austin's 20-member police vice squad was broken up in 1998 following an internal scandal involving bribes, graft and corruption, and its task farmed out to various other police units, this has not, apparently, stopped police from prosecuting under the statute. In Burleson in 2004, for example, Joanne Webb, a mother of three and a former schoolteacher, faced up to a year in prison for selling a vibrator to two undercover police officers posing as a married couple at a private party. She was later acquitted, and the undercover officers were issued reprimands.
Section 43.23 of the code deals with promotion ("A person commits an offense if he ... possesses with intent to wholesale promote any obscene material or obscene device. A person who possesses six or more obscene devices ... is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.") This section carries higher penalties, and for this reason, those businesses that trade in items covered under the act usually market them as 'novelties' or 'educational items'. -From the Wiki
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