You know this already I hope. But it never hurts to have surveys supporting the truth. Australians who participate in D/s and S&M were surveyed and:
“However, they were no more likely to have been coerced into sexual activity and were not significantly more likely to be unhappy or anxious,” said Prof Richters, author of the book Doing It Down Under.
A New York man planned to bring a woman and her two daughters from New Zealand to America to breed slaves. His imagination while colorful in a way really sounds very constricted.
Their offspring would be produced with “superior” DNA from muscle-bound boys in Germany and medal-winners from Sweden, according to the man, who expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who wrote about breeding people, and a superman to represents the peak of human development.
He intended that girls who disobeyed would be pitched in a pit as punishment.
Chances are he never really read a word of Nietzsche.
Jacob Sullum of Reason on the Glenn Marcus case:
Given the nature of the relationship and Jodi’s decision to continue it for years after it supposedly became nonconsensual, there seems to be plenty of room for reasonable doubt that anything Marcus did violated her rights.
Some folks into S&M confessed to be inspired by Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib when those sordid places first appeared in the news. Nothing to be surprised by. Most of with sadomasochistic inclinations have some pretty dark fantasies. Thankfully we can distinguishable between fun ideas and possible practices.
A sign of the times, the course list also included “Interrogation and Torture Techniques.” The class, which outlined how to fetishize Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, was taught by an instructor with a military background. The core idea of torture play is to integrate topical imagery as a trigger to boost fear and stimulate endorphins.
“When we’re using those references, it’s to provoke a reaction,” says Susan Wright, founder of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and an author whose latest novel is titled “A Pound of Flesh.”
“Anybody who protests us should ask themselves why they are not protesting the reality of torturing prisoners. We’re consenting adults. We might get in a pool with each other and waterboard somebody, but the person can say, ‘No, I don’t like this.’ They have a safeword.” (Prearranged “safewords” are established as a stop signal.)
Glenn Marcus’s conviction has been overturned and a new trial ordered.
The court of appeals for the Second Circuit found the law Marcus was convicted of breaking, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, wasn’t enacted until 2000, a year after he’d begun the affair.
Earlier Glenn Marcus:
Jody Testifies at Glenn Marcus Trial
Framing Jason Fortuny as a very pure form of web troll Mattathias Schwartz interviews Fortuny - among others - about his decision to ‘pick on people.’
Fortuny’s Craigslist Experiment deprived its subjects of more than just privacy. Two of them, he says, lost their jobs, and at least one, for a time, lost his girlfriend. Another has filed an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against Fortuny in an Illinois court. After receiving death threats, Fortuny meticulously scrubbed his real address and phone number from the Internet. “Anyone who knows who and where you are is a security hole,” he told me. “I own a gun. I have an escape route. If someone comes, I’m ready.”
Nazisploitation and the Right to Privacy
A British judge has ruled in Sir Max Mosley’s favor in his lawsuit against The News of the World.
“I found that there was no evidence that the gathering of March 28, 2008, was intended to be an enactment of Nazi behavior or adoption of any of its attitudes,” the judge wrote.
He added that Mr. Mosley had a “reasonable expectation” of privacy for sexual activities that took place on private premises and that did not involve violations of the criminal law.
“There was no public interest or other justification for the clandestine recording, for the publication of the resulting information and still photographs, or for the placing of the video extracts on The News of the World Web site — all of this on a massive scale,” the judge said.
British Judge Rules Tabloid Report Tying Grand Prix Boss to ‘Orgy’ Violated Privacy
From Reason’s Hit &M Run:
Max Mosley’s victory in his lawsuit against The News of the World for reporting on his sadomasochistic proclivities illustrates the dangers of detaching a general “right to privacy” from its moorings in property and contract rights. Yesterday a British judge ordered the tabloid to pay Mosley about $1 million in damages and legal costs, concluding that it had unjustifiably invaded his privacy by paying a participant to secretly record a five-hour S&M session …
An illness kept me from working on any of my sites.
Even though she calls herself Madame de Sade and dolls herself up in fetish wear when going to court Terri-Jean Bedford’s challenge to Canada’s treatment of sex workers seems sensible and just.
Terri-Jean Bedford, who calls herself the most famous dominatrix in Canada, is asking the Canadian government to rethink the treatment of sex work in the criminal code. She and two colleagues filed a constitutional challenge before the Ontario Superior Court, saying that prostitutes endanger themselves working on the street.
Her fame appears to be based on a high profile 1994 bust. But such fame is fleeting.
Famous Canadian Dominatrix Scolds Government
Sex laws are often encumbered in amazing stupidity:
Young said while prostitution is not illegal, communicating for the purposes of it is, which leaves women vulnerable because they are unable to screen clients.
Dominatrix seeks criminal code changes
Making it tougher on women who work indoors - in professional brothels = seems exceptionally foolish:
“The safest and happiest period in my life was when I was up in Thornhill, running the (bondage) service from my house,” she said.
“I just want them to know that indoors is much safe from outdoors, from my own experiences.”
Dominatrix mounting constitutional challenge says sex is safest indoors
“I have worked in all aspects of the sex trade and I have made every mistake possible. I know the good, the bad and the ugly and I know that bawdy houses are safer than being on the street.”
Another reminder that you can never be too careful when meeting people via online fetish dating websites.
Women Helping Women was what one man promised women.
Michael Thorn Anderson will serve a final 50 days in jail in what court officials describe as an unusual case in which he was accused of luring women he met on a sadomasochism Web site to his home, then confining them.
