Yep, I feel a whole lot safer now.....

[The Straight Story]

Pleasure Principles

Enfield dominatrix Michelle Silva has described a police raid on her home last month as an attack on her free speech rights and a scare tactic by a town straining for a justification to shut her down. But initially no one knew for sure why the police searched her home on Nov. 16 and seized her computers and bondage furniture, since the search warrant remained sealed.

Now the seal has expired, and the warrant is very clear: it states that the "promotion of prostitution" constitutes the bulk of the charges Silva could face.

Silva, 33, operates an S&M website, EmpressM.net, that offers bondage photos and videos that she argues she has the legal right to distribute. But the warrant barely mentions the videos; rather, it is Silva's other business as a dominatrix who invites customers to visit -- and pay hundreds of dollars for services -- that drew attention from police.

The investigation was prompted by an anonymous e-mail police received in January. "I thought you would like to know that you have an S&M prostitution house in your town," the e-mail said, according to the warrant. When Enfield Det. William Cooper looked at Silva's website, he found pictures of "'EmpressM' with nude males, 'slaves' in obvious states of sexual arousal," the warrant said. S&M practitioners, or sadomasochists, derive sexual pleasure from inflicting pain on others or themselves.

http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:138179

whew, glad we gots us another terraist of da streets......

[Straight Shooter]

1. "Heather's Box" was one of the highest-rated episodes on CSI.

And I bet the person who sent that e-mail watched and loved every minute of it, as the dominatrix flirted with and tantalized the ever-so-cool Grissom.

[havocmom]

2. They'll be searching people in plushie costumes next

Me-OW

[NanceGreggs]

3. Sadomasochists derive sexual pleasure from ...

... inflicting pain on others ...

Guess Rummy, Cheney and the rest of he pro-torture crew will be next on the list, no?

[SpiralHawk]

4. Bondage funiture? WTF?

I guess I must lead a very sheltered life.

But that reminds me of the ancient sex jok about the professor who gives a large class a lecture on the ""6 basic sex positions." A wise guy in the back of the hall keeps correcting the prof, yelling out "93 basic sex positions" every time the prof says there are 5.

Finally -- this is a shaggy dog story, remember, so it can be stretched out endlessly -- the prof describes the FIRST position: "with the man on the top and the woman on the bottom."

From the back of the lecture hall comes the wise guy's voice: "OK, then, 94 basic positions."

[Conservativesux]

5. Aonymous e-mail doesnt constitute "Probable Cause" anymore then

..anonymous phone calls are, so the case has to be trown out, for lack of PC in the first case.