Newspaper hack hounds spanking vid producer
Rants, Raves and Reviews — By Adele on 13 January, 2009 9:09 pmJust in case anybody in the spanking community thought that it was safe to enjoy our kink in peace, here comes another newspaper expose. It benefits exactly nobody, but has, I’m sure, wreaked havok in its subject’s life.
I’m not going to put in a direct link, because I refuse to give the paper even any search engine authority (google if you must), but here’s a quote:
A PENSIONER is luring teenage boys to take part in seedy spanking sessions – which he is filming just down the road from a Birmingham primary school.
Sleazy [name removed - AH] has even set up a mock classroom and punishment dungeon to stage the sadistic movies which he is selling on to perverts in the United States.
The former insurance worker has advertised spanking auditions on social networking site gumtree.com.
He looks for young men, 18 to 28, who can take “a reasonable amount of corporal punishment given by the hand, slipper, belt or the dragon cane over clothing and on the bare bottom.’’
Oh, the villain. No wonder the paper guy felt the need to go undercover as a wannabe male model, and expose the man. The world needs to be saved from pensioners filming spanking movies in their flat. The world simply cannot cope with the threat.
The title of the article has really irked me. It goes, “Pensioner lures teenage boys for seedy spanking sessions near Birmingham school and sends films to US perverts”.
If you translated it into non-sensationalist, plain English, it would be so mundane that nobody would blink twice.
Let’s see. “Pensioner” – well, fine, he’s elderly.
“Lures” – he advertises on gumtree, clearly stating his intentions.
“Teenage boys” – adult men from 18 to 28.
“For seedy spanking sessions” – also known as plain old spanking scenes to you and me.
“Near Birmingham school” – So, let’s take a quick poll. Hands up anybody who does not live a walking distance from a primary school. I’m willing to bet that the majority of my readers even go as far as have sex just down the road from a primary school. It’s the fucking point of primary schools: that they’re easily accessible.
“And sends films to US perverts” – He sells some fetish porn online.
In other words, “Elderly guy advertises for adult men to shoot fetish films, which he then sells online.” Big fucking sensation.
I can just imagine some provincial journalist getting into the office one morning, and thinking: “What interesting issue shall I raise in the paper today? Oh, I know! I’ll dig around gumtree, find some random adult ad, send a fake response, and ruin somebody’s life by exposing him in the Sunday edition. Hurray, my Pulitzer is on the way.”
At least, unlike Paul Kennedy of Northern Spanking, who has suffered from similar pointless, malicious hounding, this guy can’t be fired.
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I can get so angry about these kinds of things. Whatever makes someone write things like that? Why would you knowingly and willingly ruin somebody’s life by blowing things way out of proportion, things that aren’t even harming anyone?
Seriously, I normally don’t swear, but I’d like to offer a big “fuck you” to all the people out there who do these things. They must be mighty pleased with themselves.
‘And sends films to US perverts’ Those bastards!
Nothing like good old jingoism to sell the masses?
Nothing like the proverbial ‘kick in the teeth’ to get reminded just how rare tolerance, a desire to understand and accurate reporting of facts actually are. And that does not even touch the whole point of a reporter willfully ruining someones life.
What a spectacularly frustrating world we live in at times :-(
There was a surprisingly unbalanced and slightly hysterical discussion on BBC radio 4 tonight about pornography on the internet. The factual bssis for the scare which speakers were trying to generate was (a) the enormous amount of internet traffic which could be classified as pornoraphy and (b) some recent research which appaently showed that a large proportion of young children had actually viewed some pornography.Beyond that there was confusion and a vague sense of dreadful things waiting to happen unless something was done.
Back when I was young and computers took up a small building. Me and my friends would sneak into out dad’s stash of penthouse and playboy. Or even at the store .They used to be on the front rack with out plastic. One of us would distract the clerk while the rest of use snuck a peak. I had friends whose parents let them read the mainstream porn mags so it wouldn’t be that much of a forbidden subject.
As a bona fide US pervert, I take exception to being singled out as being any different or any worse than any other kind of pervert.
I found the article, it is one of the weakest attempts at associate spankos with children that I have ever seen. There is absolutely no evidence that the pensioner in question is having anything to do with kids but the sleaze bag reporter does his best to suggest this any way. This kind of thing makes my blood boil.
Prefectdt
I feel sad and outraged on behalf of the man who found himself the target of this “pointless, malicious hounding”, as Adele accurately descibes it. Taloid journalists are scum, and thrive on sensationalism and scaremongering. It’s hardly new, but unfortunately that doesn’t make it any more annoying.
By the way, I’m all for googling the article and seeking out the newspaper – to leave a comment about what you really think, and who the real bad guys are. As long as we vent our anger and our justified indignation only here in our secluded community, it helps neither us nor the victim of this hounding, does it?
Fight back.
…”doesn’t make it any *less* annoying” is what I meant to say, as you can imagine.
Notable is the cute way it’s all for US pervs, avoiding saying “and sells it to you readers”.
Unless we’ve misunderstood and their point is the disgraceful way UK pervs don’t get a look-in?
This sort of thing causes hardship to the folks “exposed” because we’re still a nasty little fetish fringe. The more we stand up and get counted the less harm this sort of sleazy reporting will do.
I suggest at least someone in the UK write to the press complaints commission, as a) the enterprise although distasteful to some is totally legal, b) as men between the ages of 18 and 24 are requested, the reporter’s usage of the word boys is deliberately misleading and b) could potentially spike the interests of those looking for under-age sex.
R
Yikes. This is sensationalist, reckless, inane “journalism” of the very worst kind.
Yours in perversity,
Dave
OK I registered at the newspapers website and left a comment on the article two days ago. The result was the same as usual, comment not published. Two comments from other contributers were published but I can’t help feeling that papers use comment moderation to hide the amount of people objecting to their poor reporting.
Prefectdt
Much of what I think about this scurvy journo and his article has been said in the comments above and in Adele’s piece. However, there’s just one point I’d like to add, because it’s perhaps the most pernicious and misleading detail of the whole business (and it appears in the headline!): namely, the proximity of the pensioner’s flat to a local school.
This arbitrarily dragged-in irrelevance serves the scribbler’s, and his newspaper’s, purpose, which is to heighten fear among the readership of ‘dirty old men’ and sundry ‘perverts’ preying on ‘our’ children. (Recall, in this context, that the headline refers only to teenagers, not adult males aged 18-28.)
I haven’t read the article, nor was I aware of the story until reading this blog, but I do hope there was nothing in it which might enable ‘right-thinking’ locals to get up a righteous lynch mob and subject the poor man to harrassment, abuse, intimidation, vandalism of his property, public humiliation and worse, as has happened in some other cases here in England (inspired, as you might’ve guessed by the press).
Responding to Redhead…
The trouble is that for several years only people directly affected can complain about an article. I suppose that someone just might get away with it if s/he had the courage to say that s/he identified with the “perverts”, but I’m by no means sure that this is the case.
Other routes are effectively closed. Mosley’s solution is out because
(1) it costs a hell of a lot of money. “The law, like the Ritz Hotel, is open to all.” Mosley’s ability to sue, like his ability to engage in his kink at such large scale, at such frequency, and with talent of such quality, depends on his great wealth.
(2) Like the unfortunate Paul K, the pensioner is hardly able to claim under privacy legislation, since he has advertised commercially for models for films he intnded to sell.
The legislation regarding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is useless because it defines sexual orientation narrowly and specifically excludes sadomasochism, together with – you’ve guessed! paedophilia.
You go girl! This kind of crap irritates the H*## out of me too. Insinuating that spanking and pedofiles go hand in hand, I often wonder why we spankers/spankees pose such a threat to the rest of the world! What a person does in the privacy of their own home is their businiess as long as no one is seriously hurt, and both ADULTS are consenting.
Janeen
To Allan,
Given Adele’s analysis, the newspaper article offends at least clause 1 (i) – Accuracy – of the PCC’s code of practice. Also the article’s juxtaposition of the words ‘boys’ and ‘school’ may also contravene the spirit of clause 6. The PCC can advise you.
http://www.pcc.org.uk/complaints/process.html
Have you, or anyone in the UK who’s read this, written to your PCC? That doesn’t cost anything. Including “it costs a hell of a lot of money” in reference to my post on the PCC could be misleading. I don’t think you’re suggesting doing nothing.
R
What the PCC suggests on the page linked by Redhead, and what I actually suggest too, is writing to the editor of the newspaper in question and complaining directly to him.
(1) Google the article using the excerpt posted here
(2) Go to “Contact Us” on the newspaper’s website
(3) Send an email to the editor and make your feelings about the article known
These people are in the business of selling newspapers, pure and simple. When they realise that their “scare the population” tactics do not work (sell), when they realise how many people are actually offended by this type of reporting, and that the whole thing might actually hurt popularity rather then increase it – then you can be sure, any editor, regardless of the type of newspaper, will take that into consideration.
Just in case anyone’s missed it, Prefectdt has got in touch with the writer of the article, who seems to be a young lad new to journalism. He’s written him a polite email explaining why his article was inappropriate and potentially illegal, and is encouraging anyone else who wants to do the same. He thinks a conciliatory approach is wisest, but if anyone wants to just speak their mind the journalist’s email address is
I intend to keep doing this when I come across younger journalists putting their nose into our business, in the hope that one day one of them might be intelligent enough to realize that a headline like “Innocent Kinksters Persecuted By Evil Plotters” might be a more attention grabbing, paper selling, direction to take, rather than the usual other way around stance, that people have become desensitized to.
Prefectdt
I have nothing more to add really that has already been said. But would like to reiterate Sam and others comments about the references to schools. This is utterly despicable with the inference it creates in people’s heads. The article that “exposed” Paul also had a similar reference in which is described our house and location enough without actually giving the address that anyone with half a brain would be able to track our house down and we were very concerned about vigilante attacks on our house. We had to move out for nearly three months for our own safety as a result. Since the article also inferred we were running a brothel (and the long list of prostitutes available on our website – apparently) and lives “just 20 yards from a local primary school”. No one deserves to have to live with that kind of fear for the sake of journalistic titillation!
Oh RLY?
An old perv doesn’t like being said that he’s a perv?
The right to privacy isn’t conditional on not being an old perv.
On a different note, His article states (whitch He sells, On line? to perv’s in the US)? as He has a direct line only to the Us? Or is it He sells to The Us and They put it on line? anyway He clearly used the Us as another tactic just to make things worse. If He had been selling to those wacky, fun loving taliban guys it would have much more wholesome!