Hugs,
Hermione

I don’t think that a girl being paid for sex is wrong, so long as she gets all the money and does not have to work that trade to line the pockets of a pimp or drug dealer.

I believe what a girl does with her own body, in private, is her right so long as she does not harm others.

UK law, unlike other countries, does not define what is a prostitute but instead relies on her/him ‘plying for trade’ as the offence and ‘running a disorderly house’ or brothel if working collectively.

The girl does not commit an offence in private. Unfortunately this means that the press are free to interpret the term ‘prostitute’ any way they like as it is difficult to sue for libel against that accusation if you are a professional in the ‘bdsm scene’.

I was making the point that BBC/press are using ‘prostitute’ to sensationalise and work on the baser instincts of their listeners/readers rather than being objective.

This ruling has seriously weakened any defence ‘of in the public interest’ regarding sexual activities in private and therefore removed a lot of the prime ‘meat’ that NOTW etc. use.

I hope that the PCC are going to stamp down on any infringements after this case because I fear that the ‘scum of the world’ and others may decide to go after smaller fry, those that cannot afford to bring court cases, to fill the pages of their libellous rags.

Abel – thanks for the quotes and commentary I saw the London Lite headline on my way home this evening before I checked my email, and my first thought when I read the story was to wonder whether MM would divert any of the settlement to Women A-D. Ah well. Small victories are definitely worth celebrating, and hopefully this judgement will make it less likely that more people’s lives will be ruined in this way in future.

I am aghast that, despite this judgement, that the BBC and press are still referring to the girls as prostitutes when sex was NOT a service they offered!

Fetish escorts, spankees, masochists and sadists may cover the description but not prostitute with the nasty associations of paid sex that implies.

It seems that Max Mosely has now become ‘bulletproof’ against further press intrusion but I am concerned that, whilst this multi-millionaire is £60,000 the richer, that Paul and Lucy of Northern Spanking are left high and dry and facing an uncertain financial future by the malicious and inaccurate gutter press reporting in the Scottish papers that outed Paul.

I have offered what little help I can to Paul and Lucy, and also the girl I know that was affected, and I hope others in the spanking industry will do likewise.

If we in the spanking fraternity cannot rally round and help then it reflects badly on us all because they are casualties in a battle fought, and fortunately won today, on behalf of all of us spankos.

My only other wish is that Woman-E and her ex-MI5 husband rot in hell for their treachery to those they called ‘friends’ and used so terribly to get their 15 pieces of silver (they would have got 30 but the NOTW are as treacherous as themselves and only paid them half!).

I wonder if there will ever be a day in which a person can’t be fired for being involved in BDSM activities. I hope so.

BDSM has come into the spotlight recently much as homosexuality did in the 90s. I remember when it was legal to sack someone for being gay. When genuinely well-meaning employers were requiring gay staff to have AIDS tests.

When that has been achieved we will have a case for challenging the extreme porn law. It will take a while but this way we take a civil rights approach instead of just being about porn. You can’t take a moral stand in favour of porn, it doesn’t happen.