"Passion for Justice"
Houston Chronicle | Yet another reason why I will always laugh at Texas
[Joanne Webb] had been busted in a sting operation for selling sex products during private, in-home get-togethers... Tucked into a Texas law on public indecency is this definition of an obscene device: 'A device, including dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.' It's not illegal to buy them or to own them. It's not even illegal to sell them - they are widely available in adult bookstores and specialty shops that trade in erotica - unless they are sold for their intended purpose... 'Wal-Mart is violating the statute,' [the defense attorney] says. 'So are the drugstores and everyone else who sells condoms.'

Why, oh why, is Texas so interested in what's going on in their people's pants?