A couple from Hong Kong has gone to jail over black-mailing a newly wed woman to join them in a threesome. You can read the story: Hong Kong couple jailed for tricking newly-wed woman into threesome on the EarthTimes website. Here is another angle on the story from The Standard: Couple in threesome case jailed. Finally, the daily telegraph has fun with this headline by claiming: Sex mad couple caged in Honkers. The bottom line in case you don’t feel like reading these stories: “Wong, who the court heard had Chan’s name tattooed on her pubic area, was jailed for two years and two months after being convicted of aiding and abetting rape and three charges of procuring“.

Don’t you just love it when a swingers club makes news not because of what happens or what they are up to but because of who attends? Jeffrey Toobin, wrote an article for the New Yorker, The Dirty Trickster, and was taken to the Miami Velvet swingers club by Roger Stone himself. Names like Richard Nixon and Eliot Spitzer are being thrown around, and not being a big fan of US politics ourselves (mostly because we don’t live there) the article doesn’t hold much interest for us, but may for you, be a revelation if you are a conspiracy theorist hehehe. Here is another take on the story from New York Magazine: So, One Day, Roger Stone Brings Jeffrey Toobin to a Swinger’s Club…

You can find a 32 page Adobe Acrobat (PDF) document on the Morality in media website entitled: Swingers Club Case Law Study. The case study is part of their side project, The National Obscenity Law Center. If you are a club owner and are currently fighting in court or interested in more details about this project and other documents they have available, you can visit their page specifically setup for Laws on Sexually Oriented Businesses.

Alan R. Levy published a very interesting story in the Yale Law Journal with a title sure to get your attention: ‘How “Swingers” Might Save Hollywood from a Federal Pornography Statute‘. It seems that in the US, pornographers and the like have been fighting and losing the ‘proof of age’ legal battle that has plagued them for years. In a funny turn of things, it seems that swingers have more power than pornographers, they took the law to the upper courts and actually managed to do what the sex industry has tried and failed. You can also read this article from Find Law to get a better understanding of how swingers fit into this picture.

Not much of an angle on this story. As it turns out, Robert Dow, the new president of the Palm Beach County Classroom Teachers Association used to throw swingers parties about two decades ago. The Palm Beach Post printed an article that caused some controversy lol. The more I write about these supposed news stories, the more I realise that sex really does sell if they have to resort to a weak swingers reference to sell the story.

It’s just beyond me how people can protest a swingers club in their neighbourhood when there are thousands of worthy causes that need volunteers with a lot of spare time on their hands. It may be wrong to be a swinger, but it sure feels right to us! On to the story, The Hunt Club of Brevard, located in Melbourne, Florida is getting some attention in the media because of nosey neighbours. You can read the shortest story ever published or actually read a full article about the protest.