Master Rick's Plea Deal

This case resounds with similarities to the Spanner Trial that took place in Britain in the Mid Nineties.

Rick Sciara, Mendes, and Reeves all pleaded guilty. They tried to mitigate the guilty pleas by bringing the ‘consent’ argument into play. Whether this was taken into consideration in the sentencing is anyone’s guess, but the court will have given a lot of weight to the guilty plea, and the defendants previous good character.

The defendant’s brother, an enement psychiatrist no less was called as a defence witness, and the best he could say about him was that he was a caring person. He declared that he supported his gay lifestyle, even encouraging his brother to move to where he would be more accepted, but found his interest in sado masochism and body mortification so distasteful that he had not spoken to him since 2002.

Sciara’s defence lawyer admitted that ‘consent’ was not a defence to the crime, hence the guilty pleas.

Spanner had pretty much the same outcome, defendants pleading guilty in the hope of changing the law, but ultimately they did not get the conditional discharge that they wanted but where jailed. Lets hope these three realise that what they did is wrong, because another conviction could see them in jail for a very long time.

I was surprised that you hadn’t posted about Tsurial Raphael, the Israeli ambassador to El Salvador who was recalled after an unfortunate incident in the grounds of his embassy involving a gag ball, rope, no clothes, drink, and a bunch of assorted sex toys.

Sorry that should read the ex Israeli ambassador to El Salvador

Tsurial Raphael

I don’t recall if it was because I was too busy or it didn’t cross the threshold I use for citing events. The latter of course can be affected by whichever account I see of a story

Since my lover will be returning to the US today I’m sure I’ll miss events I’d normally note..

Having just watched a TV program on eunuchs (http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/E/eunuchs/index.html) it was filmed in the town and showed how backward it was to such a life style choice. Comments from the police included hanging people like ‘Master Rick’, other giggled and the ‘gays’ and “how I would use my gun if he came to me with a collar”.

The point was that no one was forced to do this, unlike the body modifications forced on jewish baby boys. I can understand what some slaves want this done.

In the TV program it had a 20yo kid just wanting rid of his balls and nothing else. I can understand the worry the parents went throught, like what if he changed his mind, really trying to cope with it. Not normal or just not common?

The big issue for me is abount concent.

In big cities we dont care if someone has body pericings, few care if people are tattooed.

So why is it that the state feels its ok to impose injuries on people but not to be allowed to choose it themselves.

An examples it is fine to kill someone in the electric chair but not to allow them to end their own life. It is fine to chemically castrate someone against their will but not for them to choose that. That is, we are used to revenge - that is why execution is not humane. This is why justice is harsh.

Just because we cannot get our minds around why someone would want to do that, it does not make it wrong - I dont want it to happen to me, eg gay sex cos I am straight, or going to church cos I hate christians or being tortured by leathal injection cos I want to live, or being put down cos I have painful cancer and cant afford the meds etc. So we hate them and they have to be met with our justice. You never see the opposite in such high relief. Only in a few states do you have mercy killings for the termally ill - the leathal injection uses there is painless and they die in seconds not 20mins of painful convusions. Like would you strap granny to a bench, parralyze her so we done see or hear her pain and then proceed to slowly kill her. Conversly the person that murdered your children would you just put them to sleep with a quick jab. What is it about us as a whole that does that?

For me this is just a test of our humanity. I would not look down on those that desire to alter their bodies. I hope the choice they make makes them happy. In the UK there is no Castration law as we did not have slaves in the same volume the US did - the law we would use over here is that they must ‘obviously’ be mad to choose such a thing, and with madness is no consent. This was used in the Opperation Spanner case and other S&M cases, where you must be mad to be into S&M so therefore the sum is always a victim and the top is alway proceduted. The law has not changed, it could be used at any time it is choosen not to be used.

Again it is a measure of the maturity of our society that we can tollerate diversity however weird it gets -it is a measure of the capablity of humanity the more we get pushed from our comfort zone.

have thought about having it done to me from time to time