Slavemaster News

'Slavemaster' admits five more murders John E. Robinson, convicted of killing three women in Kansas, pleaded guilty Thursday to five more murders in Missouri, where some of the victims' bodies were found shoved into barrels in a storage locker. In his latest plea, Robinson admitted that he killed Beverly Bonner, 49, of Cameron, Mo., and Sheila Faith, 45, and her paraplegic daughter, Debbie, 16, both formerly of California. Slavemaster sentenced to Death 'Slavemaster' gets death A Kansas judge has sentenced John E. Robinson Sr. to death by lethal injection for the the murders of three women. Bodies of two of the women were found in barrels on his property, and the third was never found. Robinson will also be tried in Missouri for killing three other women whom he allegedly lured off the Internet. Read more at http://www.courttv.com/trials/robinson/

The Persecution of Michelle Silva

Some of you have read of Michelle Silva (also known as Empress M) of Enfield, CT whose home was raided by local police without a warrant. Ms. Silva ran a BDSM pay site using computers in her home. They were seized, effectively putting her out of business. Here is part of a comment she left on one of my other sites: This has ruined my life. I’m losing my home and will be on the street because this website was my source of income. they have taken all my equpitment that i use to shoot video and my computers and sofeware to update my site .. no one will buy memberships because i cant provide updates. i cant pay my bills or get a job because [police put my name in the papper with out even arresting me. no charges or arrests yet after 1 year of there investagation and 8 weeks since they took all my stuff. everything is two months behind ..i need a job..we are taking donations so we can live To read more click here http://www.downonmyknees.com/archives/bdsm_news/the_persecution_of_michel.php

Quarter-million Dollars in Dominatrix Fees

Supposedly this guy spent almost $250,000 over a six month stretch of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in Manhattan money to mostly pay for sessions with a ProDomme. [Abraham] Alexander allegedly used at least $11,000 of the money to pay for $250-per-hour sadomasochism sessions with Lady Sage, whose website describes her as a professional dominator, and whom prosecutors said Alexander repeatedly flew in from her home in Columbus, Ohio. To read more http://www.downonmyknees.com/archives/bdsm_news/quartermillion_dollars_i.php

Play Safely

The story of Matthew Caddy and Daniel Everson is too simply reported for me to feel it gives an adequate telling of exactly why Everson died. But it never hurts to remember the safe part of Safe, Sane and Consensual. Everson had traveled by bus from his home in Litchfield, Minnesota to visit Caddy after meeting him online. Everson and Caddy shared an interest in sadomasochism, and Caddy was to serve as Everson’s “master” while he was in Ohio. According to the coroner, Everson’s kidneys failed because of severe bruising on his back and shoulders. Bruising can cause muscles to secrete proteins which, in great enough quantity, can overload kidneys. For more http://www.downonmyknees.com/archives/bdsm_news/play_safely.php

Master arrested for forced labor, aggravated sexual assault

The story of Glenn Marcus of Kew Gardens, NJ is a horrifying instance of BDSM gone wrong. Marcus has been arrested for forced labor and sexual abuse. Perhaps the woman asked for nonconsensual slavery and he was foolish enough to take her offer seriously. The only proper response when a slave asks for freedom is to let him or her go. Maybe the woman is feeling guilty about her kinky sex life and called in the authorities as some nutty sort way of unburdening herself of the guilt. For more http://www.downonmyknees.com/archives/bdsm_news/master_arrested_for_force.php

Good News for Transgendered Individuals

Good News for Transgendered Individuals.   In New York City at least. Gender is self-perception and performance, not just physiology. Applicants would have to have changed their name and shown that they had lived in their adopted gender for at least two years, but there would be no explicit medical requirements. “Surgery versus nonsurgery can be arbitrary,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city’s health commissioner. “Somebody with a beard may have had breast-implant surgery. It’s the permanence of the transition that matters most.”

Selling Sex on the Web Can Still Put You in Jail   As a few people know from harsh experience just because you aren’t standing on the street corner doesn’t mean the cops won’t come knocking on your door if you provide others with sex - physical or virtual. Juhu Thukral is the Director of the Sex Workers Project and says they get calls from their clients all the time who have been arrested for indoor work, picked up by the police after they read “Craigs List” and other Internet hot spots. “I think that people think they won’t be arrested or that it’s going to protect them in a certain way,” Thukral says.