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8 Apr 2013

Connecticut Supreme Court weighs whether severely mentally ill woman could consent to violent, sadomasochistic sex

Daily Mail: 
14 March 2013 |

The Connecticut Supreme Court is this week considering arguments over whether a severely mentally ill woman could have legally consented to violent, sadomasochistic sex.

Caroline Kendall Kortner began having sex with Greenwhich computer programmer Craig Martise when she was 32. Her mother found out when she noticed red marks and welts on her daughter's neck.

According to court documents, the relationship included Martise dragging Kortner by a leash and dog collar, slapping her with his hand and a belt, pinching and twisting body parts, tying and gagging her and dripping burning hot wax on her.

Prosecutors refused to charge Martise, but Mary Kortner sued in 2006. She claimed that a court had ruled Kendall Kortner incapable of making decisions for herself and that she could not consent to any sex - much less the kind of relationship she had with Martise.

While sadomasochism was glamorized in the popular 2011 book trilogy 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' the practice has long been on questionable legal ground.

 Some lawyers argue that no one can consent to being assaulted or abused during sex.

Appeal: Kendall Karson's mother Mary brought the case to the Supreme Court after a jury found that the sex was consensual
Appeal: Kendall Karson's mother Mary brought the case to the Supreme Court after a jury found that the sex was consensual

Others say established legal principles provide sexual rights to most people, including elderly people in nursing homes and the mentally ill.

There are few court rulings, however, dealing directly with BDSM, short for bondage, discipline, dominance/submission and sadomasochism.

Kendall Kortner had been diagnosed with clinical depression, borderline personality disorder, bulimia and anorexia. She tried to commit suicide twice and had a stroke in 2001 that left her partially paralyzed from the waist down and incontinent, court records say.

She weighed just 80 pounds and lived in an assisted-living facility, where she was learning to survive on her own.

In high school, she showed enormous promise and was accepted into Yale University and Trinity College in Hartford. Her college career, though, was soon derailed by her mental illness.

Kendall Kornter died of undisclosed causes in 2010.

Mary Kotner lost her case in 2009, when a state jury found in favor of Martise in 2009, concluding there was a sadomasochistic relationship but no proof that Kortner's daughter couldn't consent.

'This was a shocker to everybody who was watching it,' Kortner said. 'All the allegations were true. He was guilty.'

In 1994, a probate court had ruled her incapable of managing her own affairs during a period when she refused to eat and appointed her mother as her conservator.

Martise, 49, was never criminally charged. His lawyer, Philip Russell, said the relationship involved two consenting adults and there is no merit to any of Kortner's claims.

'It's like "Seinfeld." It's the case about nothing,' Russell said.

Russell accused Kortner of being upset at Martise, a married father of two, over his relationship with her daughter and trying to publicly embarrass him after losing the lawsuit and failing to persuade police to arrest Martise.

'This case is everything that's bad about the legal system,' Russell said.

Russell also said Kendall Kortner was a habitual liar who had made several unsubstantiated sexual assault claims against other men. Russell said she once appeared at a deposition in a wheelchair and neck brace, but surveillance video shows her later the same day walking happily around her neighborhood without the neck brace.

Kortner met Martise on the Internet and their physical relationship spanned several months in 2003, court documents say.

Mary Kortner alleges her daughter protested and objected to Martise's actions, but he continued the mistreatment. She said her daughter suffered physical injuries from the alleged abuse, and Mary Kortner once asked for a $500,000 judgment against Martise in the lawsuit.

Russell and other lawyers said they couldn't recall any legal precedents in the country on whether mentally ill people can consent to sex or sadomasochism. Russell said mentally ill or disabled people have the right to sexual activity under established legal principles.

But there are worries in the BDSM community about facing criminal charges because common law says people can't consent to abuse, said Valerie White, executive director of the Sexual Freedom Legal Defense and Education Fund in Sharon, Massachusetts.

'You have to be very, very careful,' she said.

In 2000, police in Attleboro, Massachusetts, arrested two people on assault and other charges during a raid of a sadomasochistic sex party and seized paddles, whips, chains and other paraphernalia. But a judge later threw out the evidence and dismissed most of the charges because police didn't have the right to enter the premises.

In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated sex-trafficking and forced labor convictions against a New York man dubbed the 'S&M Svengali.' But the court's ruling addressed technicalities and not the practice of S&M. The man, Glenn Marcus, was sentenced to nine years in prison for abusing a woman he photographed for his website dedicated to sadomasochism.

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6 Apr 2013

Crossdressing. A modern guide.

I have quite a few friends and clients who ask for help when it comes to choosing, selecting, sizing and fashion of women's clothing.
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The Philpotts and the tabloids

Courtesy Of: It's just a Hobby.  Posted on April 3, 2013 by carter2011 

One of the things we’re very aware of here at Hobby Towers is that we see and experience the world through a prism that is shaped by our preconceptions.
So if the newspapers take a particular view of Mairead and Mick Philpott, it’s as much about the newspaper as it is about the Philpotts. The Daily Mail’s approach to all of this is utterly unsurprising. In fact it would be more of a surprise if the Daily Mail didn’t take such an approach.

You can draw quite a few conclusions from the case of the Philpotts.

One of them is that the criminal justice system failed Mick Philpott’s victims, all of them, from the very first woman he assaulted and tried to kill to the six children he killed. Not because of the welfare system, but because a system of fixed penalties, tariffs and assumed rehabilitation meant no-one took cognizance of the fact that Mick Philpott was a violent, abusive man entirely unchanged by his first spell in prison.

The problem of the tabloid press is that they don’t have to tell the truth, or even attempt a reasonable facsimile of it. The Daily Mail wants to use Mick Philpott, and pretend that somehow the welfare system made him a murderer. It didn’t. That particular die was cast at some point in Mick Philpott’s childhood. That personality defect contributed to the death of his children, but it almost certainly contributed to how Mick Philpott lived as well. Not for the first time, the Daily Mail has got the chain of causation wrong. The welfare system did not make Mick Philpott the way he is; the way Mick Philpott is made him a corrupt exploiter of the welfare system.

The problem is that the Daily Mail makes this mistake routinely, not because its edited and published by fools, but because its editor and journalists are not objective reporters, but activists campaigning for a particular view of the world that legitimizes inequality and unfairness.

Jeremy Kyle, on the other hand, is just a prick.

Due to lack of time when writing this post I didn’t include the comparison that needed to be made between a very similar, but in some ways worse case and the Philpotts. Here’s the link to the Mail coverage in thatcase. Mr X was a rapist and abuser. His own sister alleged that he was making his daughters pregnant to claim child benefit, but the focus of the Mail is not on benefits, or the accusation that Mr X was a baby farmer, but on attacking the social services who failed his daughters. Social services were the bete noir of the hectoring classes then, so the Mail focussed its attack on them, not the benefits system.

Now, we’re not in the business of over-analyzing the Daily Mail; that way madness lies, but we’re content to argue that if you can look at similar evidence and form different conclusions about it, you have no right to claim that you are a logical, well intentioned observer engaged in a full and frank search for truth.

We would argue that both Philpott and MR X have very similar conditions, lacking in empathy and conscience to a clinical degree that would require indeterminate sentences and a ‘presents no further risk of offending’ pre-condition for release. Based on its published output, the Mail has no similar understanding of causation, or indeed of the responsibility of the individual for their crimes.

Oh, and by the way, Jeremy Kyle is still a prick.

28 Mar 2013

Sinfulandwicked


Twitter: sinfulandwicked




No need to look them up on urban dictionary: the words 'please' & 'thank you' have been in English usage for many many years.


Kneel until your knees are sore & painful. Kneel until u realise there is only 1: Do not worship false idols. There's only 1 and that is ME


You bitches need to be dragged through hell — by your testicles.


Subs shouldn't be terrified. Just anxious, very anxious.


It is only at the edge of fear that a #sub learns and understands trust.


Listen #Bitch, your ass belongs to me. I don’t ever want you getting from another man what you can get from me. So drop 'em NOW & beg.


Those who desire 2 serve do so because they have rejected a defined social behaviour & embrace their true calling - under a woman's stiletto


My job is easy.. As the dominant, it is to continually captivate and seduce consent from the #submissive kneeling before Me.


Fear triggers the fight-or-flight response.. unfortunately for My #slaves or #subs, there is nowhere to run.


In our socially charged world, pain is used 2 maintain hierarchies of dominance. Learn your place in society #Bitch, which is beneath ME.


Nothing sexual is sinful. Only cruelty is wicked - wickedly, sinfully and mouth-wateringly entertaining.




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A little boy attempting to be insulting.....

This email was sent to me earlier today......

To give you an overdose of your own medicine and to see if a cheap piece of shit like you can take it as well as you give. You love beauty and glamour? Pity your not endowed with either then,is it? You are giving sexually oriented activities in return for financial renumeration. Only adults are permitted to view the site. And you're not a whore,you ugly self deluding cunt? Get fucking real you worthless reject fuckbag. You are nothing BUT a whore,you and every piece of shit who you FF. Hope you get cancer. Fuck you,you untalented sack of shit.

After laughing for quite some time, I thought a reply was needed......

To the person calling himself Jeremy Smith who sent this email to me.

Firstly, if you are going to insult someone in a written form, check your spelling, grammar and punctuation.

Secondly, make sure your disparaging comments ARE actually insulting. Your attempt at being scurrilous is amusing at best, (please do look up any words you don't understand in a dictionary). The epithetical terms used to describe me are not very creative or prolific, but I'm guessing you can't spell anything more epithetical than 'whore'. There are other words for 'whore' in the English language - perhaps a thesaurus would help.

Please let me know if you would like me to re-write the carelessly and fallaciously written paragraph you emailed to me. I would be more than happy to correct your disturbing grammar and punctuation as well as highlight your incorrect spelling. As it stands, it is quite substandard.

Regards,

Mistress Lady Leyla

P.s I almost forgot to mention...but the names Trevor and/or ROBERT come to mind?

Practice makes perfect

Resulting form the lack of effectiveness in work while wearing shackles, I did promise Mistress to practice more at home when I have time an...