1. Just a fantasy in Vernon
2. Swingers hit back at city
3. Council repeals liquor rules banning sex
Gay group says rules targeted leather, S&M events
4. Erotic exhibit highlights fetish images of women
1. Just a fantasy in Vernon
2. Swingers hit back at city
3. Council repeals liquor rules banning sex
Gay group says rules targeted leather, S&M events
4. Erotic exhibit highlights fetish images of women
Just a fantasy in Vernon
by Lynn Olanoff
New Jersey Herald
December 9, 2003
Mystic Lifestyle Resort touts itself as the largest swinger resort in the country. Its offerings include swinger romper rooms and group "meet and greet" rooms. Clothing is optional after 10 p.m. in the resort's indoor swimming pool and hot tubs. Where is all this offered? At Legends Resort in Vernon, according to Mystic's Web site. Not so, said a Legends official and a Mystic official on Monday.
"We were thinking of opening and never did", said Dominick Donofrio, of Windstar Financial Services, in Lahaska, Pa. The company is listed as the registrant on the Mystic Web site, with Donofrio as the administrative contact. Donofrio said another company operates the Web site and that it should not have gone up. The Web site has been registered since Nov. 3 and states the swinger resort opens Friday, Nov. 14. That would have been more than three weeks ago. Donofrio contests the Web site is incorrect. "No events were held there", he said.
Donofrio did not rule out the possibility of an event being held at Legends in the future. "We have not decided if we will do something there", he said. "Playboy was a private key club. If we do something, it would be a private key club". The owners of Playboy Club Hotel built the hotel and convention center, now Legends, in 1972 as an entertainment venue. In its 10 years of operation, it was never billed as a swingers resort. John Lamb, an attorney for Legends, said Mystic Lifestyle Resort booked the Vernon facility for one night, but their booking was cancelled when Legends officials found out what the event entailed.
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Swingers hit back at city
by Dennis Wagner
The Arizona Republic
December 8, 2003
PHOENIX – The relentless battle between a swinger's club and Phoenix officials moved into a new phase Friday with the filing of a $500,000 claim against the city alleging false arrest and malicious prosecution.
Milo Fencl and operators of three other establishments were arrested during a Phoenix police operation last year that targeted social clubs where patrons openly engage in sex. Fencl and co-defendants claimed the misdemeanor criminal prosecution violated constitutional rights to free expression and association.
Various tangents of the legal conflict have been waged in Phoenix Municipal Court, Maricopa County Superior Court, the Arizona Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court and the 9th Circuit Court.
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Council repeals liquor rules banning sex
Gay group says rules targeted leather, S&M events
by Lou Chibbaro, Jr.
Washington Blade
December 5, 2003
The D.C. Council repealed a regulation on Dec. 2 that gave the city's Alcoholic Beverage Control Administration authority to ban sexually oriented performances and acts in bars and nightclubs.
Council members supporting the repeal said the city's liquor law has no provision on which to base the regulation and that it duplicates enforcement authority against public sex acts already held by the police.
The D.C. Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance lobbied the Council to repeal the regulation pertaining to sexually oriented acts and performances, saying investigators with the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board used the regulation to unfairly target clubs and events catering to leather and S&M groups. Some of those groups sponsor shows that include simulated sex acts involving whips and chains that ABC investigators claimed violated the regulation ban on "flagellation", GLAA members said.
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Erotic exhibit highlights fetish images of women
by David Taffet
Dallas Voice
December 5, 2003
Veronica Gonzales doesn't want people getting the wrong idea. In her photography, she steers clear of vulgar images of women, what she describes as hardcore. But she does sign her work, "Fetish Desires by V".
Gonzales was introduced to photography at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, informally known as Dallas Arts Magnet. She began taking pictures to capture a model or scene that she wanted to draw, but photography became her main interest when she began working in the dark room.
As a commercial photographer, she has done weddings, parties and even pictures for Dallas Voice's Scene section but "I don't like commercial shooting," she says. She finds this format too constraining to express herself. "I want to shoot imagined situations that leave you guessing as to how, where and who did I shoot."
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