1. Inside Vegas Swinger Clubs
2. Cuffs' first meeting after suspension has no demonstrations
3. Group wants Cuffs charges dropped
4. It's All About Sex
5. Wife convicted of trying to kill husband during kinky game
1. Inside Vegas Swinger Clubs
2. Cuffs' first meeting after suspension has no demonstrations
3. Group wants Cuffs charges dropped
4. It's All About Sex
5. Wife convicted of trying to kill husband during kinky game
Inside Vegas Swinger Clubs
by John L. Smith (adapted from TV report)
KVBC TV (Las Vegas)
February 25, 2004
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Thanks to a popular ad campaign, tourists and locals are taking that to heart and sexing up their lives. Las Vegas Review Journal Columnist John L. Smith exposes a lesser known part of the sex industry that's taking off here in Las Vegas.
Swinging used to be the term for a popular dance, but today if you're a swinger you swap partners with other couples hoping to score. It's happening at clubs like the Green Door and the Red Rooster. And swinging is just one of the lifestyles explored in a new Las Vegas book called, "Skin City."
The underground world of partner swapping is opening up and including a wider variety of people. The well known place that swingers flock to locally is the Red Rooster. But there's a new business in town called Plush Party that's catering to a more select group.
(Swingers) "We don't get the 'hey let's hook up and talk later' kind of crowd. We get affluent, sophisticated, discriminating people on many levels. Not just the physical. You might actually be able to compare this to a very sexy cocktail party that adjourns to the bedrooms afterward."
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Cuffs' first meeting after suspension has no demonstrations
by Tom Barton
Iowa State Daily
February 24, 2004
A student bondage and sadomasochism club met Monday for the first time after a university suspension was lifted in the wake of assault charges. The group, Cuffs, met Monday night in the Gold Room of the Memorial Union with 11 members in attendance.
It wasn't a normal meeting for the group, said Treasurer Amber Troxell, sophomore in apparel merchandising, design and production. "It was more of a catch-up meeting … [it] isn't a regular meeting because it was all about legal stuff and the investigation," Troxell said.
The university charged Cuffs with assault following an investigation into a meeting last fall when a clothed group member volunteered to participate in a demonstration of the proper use of sex toys.
Cuffs president Harlan "Duane" Long Jr. ran the meeting, giving a one-hour presentation on the history of S&M and the way laws have been used to discriminate against BDSM activities and their practitioners.
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Group wants Cuffs charges dropped
by Tom Barton
Iowa State Daily
February 23, 2004
The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom sent a letter to the Office of Judicial Affairs last week asking for charges against ISU bondage and sadomasochism group Cuffs to be dropped.
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom founder Susan Wright said S&M is not assault and does not involve unwanted, offensive or fearful activities.
Keith Bystrom, associate counsel to the university, said Iowa State can investigate incidents without someone filing a complaint because it has the responsibility to make sure all student organizations are following Iowa law.
Bystrom said that under Iowa Code, a demonstration at a November Cuffs meeting was assault because Long was striking someone with the intent to cause pain. However, BDSM supporters said it was not assault and should fall under an exemption to the law, because Cuffs workshops are voluntary and therefore by definition cannot be criminal.
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It's All About Sex
by Rush Limbaugh (opinion)
Rushlimbaugh.com and national radio
February 20, 2004
We're talking about sex, and make no mistake, my friends, that's what this is about. This gay marriage business, it's about sex. Hell, what the hell isn't about sex in this country anymore? Viagra, what is it, Cialus, Levitra everything is about sex, everything in the world is about sex. Colorado university, not about football, it's sex. Martha Stewart, well, that's not about sex. That we know of. Everything in this country is about sex. Get this from Ames, Iowa.
"A student bondage club at Iowa State University." This is just written casually as though it's common. Yeah, no big deal, we have student bondage clubs every university. "A student bondage club at Iowa State University has been charged with violating university rules after a flogging demonstration in December. The school's Office of Judicial Affairs charged the group Cuffs with assault in violation of the Student Conduct Code and Iowa law…"
So the university allows the club, but they don't allow the club to do what a bondage club would do. So they've got this bondage club out there calls Cuffs, and Cuffs had a demo saying, here's what we do, and they say, well, you can't do that, but they allow them to form the club. As if this wasn't enough, and that story is also in the San Francisco Chronicle. Let me turn to the New York Times, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, there's one other aspect of the story, "Cuffs also could receive a deferred suspension which would limit activities during club meetings and limit access to the group." Well, that's tough. I'll tell you what, folks, sex education, obviously these kids, these students that started the Cuffs club obviously are Sex Ed grads from their elementary and junior high days, high school days, where did they learn this stuff? Obviously they were taught this in sex education in whatever high school they attended, and they're just taking it on to college now and the university says fine, go ahead and have the club but be careful where you do this stuff. Do this in public we're going to come after you. If you flog yourselves at your super-secret club meetings and we'll never know about it then you're okay. Think I'm making this up, I'm not. It's the San Francisco Chronicle here. You're worried about gay marriage, hell we've got sadomasochism going on at Iowa State University and apparently it's okay to have a club like that.
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Wife convicted of trying to kill husband during kinky game
Associated Press
via WTNH TV (New Haven, CT)
February 20, 2004
A woman who stabbed her husband during a game in which he was handcuffed and blindfolded was convicted today of attempted murder. Sheila Davalloo of Pleasantville could be sentenced to up to 25 years in prison.
Her non-jury trial in White Plains, New York, ended when a New York state Supreme Court justice found her guilty of assault and criminal possession of a weapon and attempted murder.
Davalloo's lawyer says she was emotionally troubled and did not realize what she was doing. He said there was no evidence she intended to hurt her husband, Paul Christos.
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