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Friday
Jan112008

Sex on the Net X

Here are some more short sex-related stories that were in the news. Each one has a comical twist.

Man finds wife in Brothel


I wonder who has more explaining to do?! Click here to see video.

A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees.
Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town.

"I was dumbfounded. I thought I was dreaming," the husband told the newspaper.



The couple, married for 14 years, are now divorcing, the newspaper reported.



Condom & Laughing Gas Kill Man


This is no laughing matter!

Gary Ashbrook was discovered naked on his bed, with a condom over his head, alongside three empty cans of nitrous oxide he used to blow up the contraceptive. He was dead. The 31-year-old had been experimenting with the drug, also known as laughing gas, with friends he had met online, said housemate Michael Young, who found his body.

Mr Young told the inquest: 'He had been putting a condom on his head for two to three months. 'He learned this through some friends of his for sexual gratification.' Friend Paul Beaton said: 'I knew he was into the sadomasochism bondage scene. I'm sure this was an accident.'


A post-mortem examination revealed that Mr Ashbrook, who had been HIV positive for seven years, died from asphyxiation. East Sussex coroner Alan Craze, recording a verdict of death by misadventure, warned against the dangers of taking nitrous oxide. He told the hearing at Eastbourne magistrates court:




'If people use nitrous oxide, in the same way as any other drug, and it is abused, it carries with it considerable dangers.'



Child Molester Chokes on Hot Dog


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Here's one that could be called poetic justice!

A convicted child molester and kidnapper died in prison after choking on a hot dog, prison officials said. Frederick Fretz, 45, was serving a 20-year sentence at the federal penitentiary in California when he died on Dec. 19. According to a prison spokesman, medics tried to remove the hot dog from Fretz's throat before taking him to a hospital.

Cow's Head sent to Wife's Lover


I think this guy has seen too many "Godfather" movies!

A man who mailed a bloody cow's head to his wife's lover has been sentenced to probation and community service. Jason Michael Fife "understands that in a civilized society a person cannot send a severed cow's head to anybody," said his defense lawyer, Henry Hilles.

Authorities in Lower Pottsgrove, northwest of Philadelphia, arrested Fife and charged him with stalking, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and harassment after he allegedly sent threatening messages and pictures to the victim between May and September 2006.

Police said Fife, 31, got the cow's head from a butcher's shop, claiming he wanted the dried skull for decoration. Instead, he mailed the head frozen, so as not to alert parcel carriers to the contents, police said. The box became bloody after sitting on the victim's doorstep on a warm day.
"My client did step over the line here, but one can certainly understand his frustration, given that the victim was carrying on an affair with my client's wife," Hilles said.

Fife, of Hunker, southeast of Pittsburgh, was sentenced Friday to a program for first-time offenders in which he must complete two years of probation and 50 hours of community service. If he successfully finishes the program, his record will be cleared. Fife and his wife, who have a young child, later reconciled, Hilles said.

Am I My Brother's Keeper?


This preacher believes strongly in keeping it in the family! But how do you explain to your brother that his son is really his nephew?? And how do you explain to your nephew that he is really your son?? And what about the mother?? And if the son/nephew has kids, how do you rearrange the family tree??

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The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother's wife and fathered a child by her.

Members of Archbishop Earl Paulk's family stood at the pulpit of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church a few Sundays ago and revealed the secret exposed by a recent court-ordered paternity test. He could be in trouble with the law for lying under oath about the affair. The living proof of that lie is 34-year-old D.E. Paulk, who for years was known publicly as Earl Paulk's nephew.
"I am so very sorry for the collateral damage it's caused our family and the families hurt by the removing of the veil that hid our humanity and our sinfulness," said D.E. Paulk, who received the mantle of head pastor a year and a half ago.

D.E. Paulk said he did not learn the secret of his parentage until the paternity test. "I was disappointed, and I was surprised," he said.

A judge ordered the test at the request of the Cobb County district attorney's office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which are investigating Earl Paulk for possible perjury and false-swearing charges stemming from a lawsuit.

The archbishop, his brother and the church are being sued by former church employee Mona Brewer, who says Earl Paulk manipulated her into an affair from 1989 to 2003 by telling her it was her only path to salvation. Earl Paulk admitted to the affair in front of the church last January.

In a 2006 deposition stemming from the lawsuit, the archbishop said under oath that the only woman he had ever had sex with outside of his marriage was Brewer. But the paternity test said otherwise.

So far no charges have been filed against Earl Paulk. District Attorney Pat Head and GBI spokesman John Bankhead would not comment.

 


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Monday
Oct292007

Sex on the Net IX

The Sex on the Net series continues with another installment of short but interesting sex-related news stories.

The Family Man


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Shahadeh Abu Arrar has given new meaning to the term "family man." Abu Arrar, 58, is a member of Israel's impoverished Bedouin Arab community. In a traditional society where men commonly have several wives and many children, Abu Arrar is exceptional. He has 8 wives and 67 children! But he is not yet finished. Abu Arrar, whose oldest child is 37, is considering marrying again.
"I'm thinking about a new wife, No. 9," he told the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot in a recent interview. "There are many women who wish to marry me and there is no lack of women. I never had a problem with such things."

While Islam allows Muslim men to have four co-wives, it is a custom in Bedouin society to flout the already-generous ruling - and an Israeli ban on polygamy - by marrying women one at a time, divorcing them and marrying others, experts on Bedouin culture said. Culturally, it's understood that the renounced wives are still married to Abu Arrar, the experts said. "My first wife is my age, and today I hardly spend any time with her. Her children are big, and I leave her alone. I have younger wives to spend time with. Every night I decide which wife to be with."

Abu Arrar claims to remember all his children's names, and says they are split almost evenly between boys and girls. According to the Israeli Interior Ministry, Abu Arrar has 53 children registered as Israeli citizens. He has 14 other children born to Palestinian wives in the West Bank and who are not eligible for Israeli citizenship, his other wives said.

It's unclear how Abu Arrar supports his massive family. Camels, goats and a cow were grazing on his property. Yediot said he also receives about $1,700 in government handouts each month. Can you imagine the size of his dinner table??? Maybe somebody should tell him about condoms???

Size Does Matter


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According to Frank Sadlo, founder of TheyFit, which makes what he claims are the world's first custom-fit condoms, size really does matter. Widths vary but condom length is usually standard, as it is believed latex can stretch to fit all men. The average adult penis is 5-6 inches long, experts said. Sadlo said his inspiration for custom condoms arose from his days playing baseball at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, where locker room tales of exploits with the opposite sex often failed to include use of condoms due to complaints they did not fit.A more comfortable condom contributes to men actually using them, said Michael Reece, director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University.
"Typically, when a man complains about condom fit, we have assumed that he means that condoms are too small and we have often just ignored this complaint because we think that men are bragging about the size of their penis" Reece said

He said men also have problems with condoms being too large. "It is time for those who establish condom manufacturing standards to consider whether an expanded range of condom sizes is necessary," Reece said. When given a choice, Frank Sadlo said many men prefer condoms smaller than the standard minimum 6.3 inches long, with more than half ordering those less than 5.12 inches.

Sadlo offers a "fit kit," a sheet of paper printed from a computer for sizing — and advising the user to watch out for paper cuts. The chart only runs from long to longer. The product was offered from 2003-2006 in the United States before he withdrew it to upgrade from 55 to 95 sizes. Changing international standard would make it easier to widely offer the product, rather than seeking approval in each country. Sadlo said it has been difficult to transform the condom industry.

Sadlo was at a meeting of delegates from 21 countries under the Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization. At the session in Seogwipo on South Korea's Jeju Island, more than 100 representatives — including leading manufacturers, government standards bodies and aid groups — pored over 42 pages of specifications and testing requirements for condoms. Maybe if Sadlo tried a little harder he could get the delegate to adopt his motto: Size Does Matter!

Genitalia Piercing


What is a 39-year-old mother to do when she discovers that her 13-year-old daughter has been having sex...... and one of her partners was the mother's boyfriend? Well one such mother came up with a solution: Shave her head and of course pierce her genitalia. The girl testified in court at her mother's child abuse trial.

The girl, now 16, told jurors that her mother asked a tattoo artist friend in 2004 to shave the girl's head to make her unattractive to boys and later held her down for the piercing.
"She was trying to protect me, but it hurt me," the girl testified. "It not only hurt me physically, but it hurt me mentally. ... That's emotionally scarring. That's physical abuse."

Defense attorney Donald Day told jurors that the mother had trouble with her rebellious daughter and that the girl agreed to the piercing to help rebuild her mother's trust.
"It wasn't torture or extreme violence," Day said. "It was, in the young girl's words, to try to save her. ... That decision was a last-ditch effort. In my client's mind, she had no other options."

Child welfare officials were called after the girl became infected from the piercing. The mother, whose name is being withheld to protect her daughter's identity, is charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse and faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted. Tammy Meredith, 43, who did the piercing in her home, was sentenced to a year in jail for her role. An arrest warrant has been issued for the mother's boyfriend on allegations he had sex with the girl.

Ping Pong "Special"


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If your teenage son has taken up ping pong after school and he attends Pace HS in Manhattan, it is time to worry. Teens at Pace HS were getting their sex education outside the classroom after being targeted by pimps who lured them to a nearby brothel and enticed them with cut-rate romps, law-enforcement sources said. The brothel, at 39 Eldridge St., was recently shut down by NYPD vice cops following complaints from outraged parents who learned that their sons were targeted by the sleazy operators, the sources said.

Police sources said that a ping pong hall was a front for the whorehouse in the back of the establishment, and that it was run by Benjie Zheng, 47, who lived a few blocks away, and Ming Liuchang, 48, of Queens. The men would try to lure students to the Robo-Pong Training Center by distributing business cards outside the school, sources said. The cards were printed only with a contact number, an image of a topless woman - and a word, "Good."

The men were arrested in a Sept. 18 sting operation, along with two suspected prostitutes and Heng Yu Ye, 46, who owned the ping pong parlor. The alleged cathouse was shuttered for good after the bust. Two undercover detectives paid cash after Zheng told them:
"You can pick any of these girls for sex, and it will cost you $35,"

Investigators allege that over the past month, the owners drummed up business by hawking their services directly in front of the school. Those who called the business-card number were given the address and upon arriving, allegedly paid fees ranging from $35 to $60 in exchange for a playing card that served as a chit for sexual services in secret back rooms.
"It doesn't surprise me. There are guys handing out cards with naked girls on them all the time around here," said Ivy Lee, a senior at Pace HS.

The rates were apparently designed to attract students who might not have wanted to wait until prom night.
"It was obvious that they were targeting young students, because the prices were so low," said one disgusted police official, adding, "Most brothels charge at least $100."

 


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Monday
Sep242007

Sex on the Net VIII

Sex is one of those things that everybody does but few are willing to discuss in an open and frank manner. Downloads of sex-related material are the most searched for items on the Internet. However in most social settings it is taboo. It makes one wonder how and why such a basic human need gets relegated to the "dark side" of the Internet and is practically a banned subject in polite social circles. Don't mention "private parts" in mixed company if you wish to remain in the room in good standing. Well for those who are interested, here are some open and frank stories about "private parts" and sexual relationships. It is the latest installment of the series Sex on the Net.

A Brief History Of The Nipple


The once-holy symbol of female fertility and sexuality has become irrelevant in modern society; the breast is now less useful as a sexual provocateur than a conduit for milk. Men are no longer fazed by the current shapes and sizes and women go to extremes to distort mammalian reality. But somehow we’re still horrified, mystified and consumed by the breast’s best accessory, the nipple. Nipples are a cultural landmark and the zeitgeist of generations; they serve as pointers of where society is and where it’s going. From the Renaissance through the Victorian Era to modern day society; follow the changing attitudes towards the nipple in this article. Rudy Gernreich’s infamous one-piece bathing suit shocked the world when it turned out to be topless. What became obvious and subsequently fascinating was the idea that it wasn’t nudity, until there was a nipple.

A classic Seinfeld episode centered on the accidental appearance of Elaine’s nipple asked the question, “When is it sex?” The answer: when the nipple makes its first appearance. This also appears to be true for social change, physical revolution and moral editing.

No Vibrators Allowed


In Alabama, you can sell guns on any street corner but you can't sell sex toys. That's right. Alabama is a vibrator-free state! The Alabama Legislature, in its infinite wisdom and in the spirit of protecting citizens from moral turpitude, a while back, banned the sale of sex toys (or "marital aids" as some lawmakers coyly call them). Now the U.S. Supreme Court has shown a gleam of interest in this controversial state law, which has been challenged in Alabama courts by adult toy retailer Sherri Williams. She has been fighting the law for nearly 10 years. The Supremes have informed the state of Alabama that it must file an answering brief with the High Court, which is an indication that the case might be taken up in the next session.

There is, and always has been, a strong strain of paternalism among lawmakers down here. And that paternalistic attitude makes them believe that they are the keepers of the Moral Keys. Us wee folk need protecting from sexual pleasures derived from plastic thingies made in China. The same lawmakers also have protected Alabamians from the glittering vice dens called casinos, the dangerous Mega-Ball lotteries and betting parlors. All for our own good.

They do, however, let us have SOME fun. We have fireworks stores at every interstate exit. We can buy all manner of guns easily and openly as long as we are of legal age. And we can shoot off the aforementioned fireworks and guns pretty much wherever and whenever we want. In other words we are free to blow ourselves up at will. We just can't blow up a dolly with big red lips and openings in her lifelike vinyl self.

Kissing means more to Women


A State University of New York team quizzed over 1,000 students, finding women place a big emphasis on kissing. They use kissing as a way of assessing the recipient as a potential partner, and later to maintain intimacy and to check the status of a relationship. Men placed less importance on it, using it to increase the likelihood of sex, Evolutionary Psychology reported.

The questionnaires revealed men were less discriminating when it came to deciding who to kiss or who to have sex with. They were more willing to have sex with someone without kissing, to have sex with someone they are not attracted to and agree to have sex with someone they considered to be a bad kisser. But kissing was more important as a bonding mechanism to women. In long-term relationships females not only rate kissing as more important than men, but they indicated that kissing was important throughout a relationship. Meanwhile, men placed less importance on kissing as the relationship progresses. There was also a difference in the sort of kisses the two sexes preferred, with men liking wet, tongue kisses. Lead researcher Dr Gordon Gallup said kissing had developed over time to become an essential part of the courtship process. But he added: "While both sexes participate in the adaptive benefits of kissing, we found sex differences when considering the pursuit of short- versus long-term mating strategies." Dr Glenn Wilson, an expert in relationships at London's Institute of Psychiatry, said: "Kissing is used by everyone as a bonding and testing mechanism.
"But the fact is women are more discriminatory than men. Men can just go out and spread their seed, but women have to take more responsibility because of the consequences and so they are likely to want to test more."

Beijing's Penis Emporium


There are many thousands of Chinese restaurants around in the UK and everyone has their favorite dish, but only in China itself do chefs specialize in a range of slightly more unusual delicacies. We are in a cosy restaurant in a dark street in Beijing. The restaurant's gristly menu was dreamt up by a man called Mr Guo. He is 81 now and retired.

Nancy has brought out a whole selection of delicacies. They are draped awkwardly across a huge platter, with a crocodile carved out of a carrot as the centrepiece. Nestling beside the dog's penis are its clammy testicles, and beside that a giant salami-shaped object. "Donkey," says Nancy. "Good for the skin..." She guides me round the penis platter. "Snake. Very potent. They have two penises each." Deer-blood cocktail "Sheep... horse... ox... seal - excellent for the circulation." She points to three dark, shriveled lumps which look like liquorice - a special treat apparently - reindeer, from Manchuria. The Guolizhuang restaurant claims to be China's only speciality penis emporium, and no, it is not a joke. The atmosphere is more exotic spa than boozy night-out. Nancy describes herself as a nutritionist.
"We don't call them waiters here. And we don't serve much alcohol," she says. "Only common people come here to get drunk and laugh."

Most of the restaurant's guests are either wealthy businessmen or government bureaucrats who, as Nancy puts it, have been brought here by people who want their help. What better way to secure a contract than over a steaming penis fondue. Discretion is assured as all the tables are in private rooms. The glitziest one has gold dishes. "Some like their food served raw," says Nancy, "like sushi. But we can cook it anyway you like."

 


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Friday
Aug242007

Sex on the Net VII

Have you ever embellished a story about your sex life and added in a little extra for time, frequency or number of partners? Maybe you "stretched" the truth just a little about physical attributes in order to look good. Have you ever perpetuated a myth based on hearsay about the opposite sex? Well research is out that exposes some of the fallacies about men's sexual health.
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Sex researchers are peculiar beasts. Armed with their tape measures, clipboards, surveys, and hidden cameras, they seek to provide a peephole from which to scrutinize that most private of spheres, human sexuality. What's most surprising is that we let them in—we're more than happy to unzip our pants and bare our private lives. Now, sex researchers have stepped out from behind the curtain to share the real numbers on five areas of men's sexual health. The findings were published in Psychology Today. The answers may surprise you.


  • Sex on the Brain



  • The idea that men think about sex every seven seconds, like the claim that we only use 10 percent of our brains, is often repeated but rarely sourced. The number doesn't bear up against scrutiny. According to the Kinsey Report (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male):

    54 percent of men think about sex every day or several times a day,

    43 percent a few times a week or a few times a month, and

    4 percent less than once a month.

    Even though the Kinsey Report relies on men to self-report on how often they think about sex, it's still eye opening to find that just under half of men aren't even thinking about sex once a day. Clearly, the seven-second rule may be a tad hyperbolic.

  • Not Tonight, Honey



  • The stereotype about the sex-starved man and the disinterested woman may be more than just a cliche. As it turns out, the instant a woman enters a secure relationship, her sex drive begins to plummet. Four years in, a German study found, fewer than half of women wanted regular sex. And after 20 years, only 20 percent did.

    Among men, libido held steady no matter how long they'd been in the relationship. Researchers provide an evolutionary explanation—women's sex drive is initially high to facilitate pair bonding. Meanwhile, desire for tenderness showed the opposite trend. Ninety percent of women craved tenderness, but of men who'd been in relationships for ten years, only 25 percent said they hoped for the same from their partner.

  • Measuring Up



  • For as long as there's been such thing as a ruler, men have been putting wood to, um, wood and wondering how they measure up. "There's nothing wrong with you. You look at yourself from above and you look foreshortened," Hemingway reassured a panicking F. Scott Fizgerald. "It is basically not a question of the size in repose. It is the size that it becomes. It is also a question of angle." The trouble is that most of the actual surveys of penis size are unscientific and unreliable. The Kinsey survey relied on men to report their own numbers honestly and accurately—never a good idea.

    But the most rigorous studies to date found similar results—the Journal of Urology put the average penis size at 5.08 inches, and the International Journal of Impotence Research put it at 5.35 inches.

  • In Three Minutes Flat



  • Judging from the average porn flick, romance novel, or locker room conversation, a Martian landing on Earth would probably assume that intercourse would last somewhere in the vicinity of 40 minutes. But if that Martian were to actually enter into a relationship, he might be in for a big disappointment. Such marathon sessions are the exception to the rule; surveys find that the average sex session lasts from three to ten minutes. Not that any of this should be so surprising—the average hotel porn viewer watches for just 12 minutes.

  • The Spread of HIV



  • In Africa alone, AIDS kills some 6,000 people every day. While treatment must be made available for all who need it, some elements of the AIDS epidemic are likely exaggerated. It seemed as if no one was safe, not even non-drug users, straight men, or housewives.

    But the truth is that HIV isn't nearly as easy to spread through heterosexual sex as many people think. According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, men almost never get HIV from women. A healthy man who has unprotected sex with a non drug-using woman has a one in 5 million chance of getting HIV. If he wears a condom, the odds drop to one in 50 million. And though it's easier for men to infect women, the odds that an HIV-positive man will transmit the virus to a woman through sex are less than one in 1,000.

So remember next time before you tell that story to check with the facts first!!


 


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Thursday
Jul122007

Sex on the Net VI


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Here are four sex-related stories that deserve mention. They run the gambit from serious to funny and embarrassing. Just goes to show how many different ways sex can be entertaining.......

Bible Rape

Abdul Reda Al-Shawany was sentenced for raping a woman whom he found reading the bible. The court was told that Al-Shawany visited the woman, an acquaintance, at Sydney's Villawood Detention Centre with another man. The woman had been reading the Bible and Al-Shawany noted her contact with Christians. The men told her they were "infidel people" and if she went with them, her killing "would be halal" - meaning her killer would go to heaven.

In September 2002, Al-Shawany lured the woman to a unit at Warwick Farm, claiming to have news about her family in Iraq. She was hit on the head and had her hijab tied around her face before Al-Shawany raped her twice in what Judge Brian Knox described as a degrading, humiliating and brutal attack.

The woman who was a refugee from Iraq said that even when she was jailed by dictator Saddam Hussein, she never feared for her life the way she did after the rape. "It is better if I'm dead," she told the court. She said her husband had refused to speak to her for months because of the shame she brought on the family. "I feel like a piece of dirt," she wrote. "I came to Australia for freedom and Abdul Reda took my freedom away."

Judge Knox said while sentencing Al-Shawany:
"What he did was an attempt to enforce his religious or cultural views on his former countrywoman," Judge Knox said. "Such behaviour is completely intolerable and totally unacceptable in this community." He sentenced Al-Shawany to a maximum seven-and-a-half years in jail.

Vibrator found in Victim

When I was young my mother would always say make sure you have on clean underwear, you never know what might happen. However mom would never in a million years think this could happen!!
A ipod-vibrator.jpgwoman was the victim of a hit and run. She was struck from behind by a motorcycle. She fell to the ground breaking her left arm. The impact also knocked her unconscious. Witnesses who saw the accident called the police. A small crowd around the lady had formed quickly. When the paramedics arrived they noticed that she had an iPod with two sets of wires. One running to her ears and the other running down her shorts. When they investigated they found that the wire running down her shorts was attached to a vibrator! According to one eyewitness: “This was a serious accident but when they pulled that vibrator hooked to her iPod out of her shorts you could see everyone’s faces turn red. "She was lucky she was still knocked out for the ride to the hospital. I don’t think I could have survived the embarrassment”.

Masturbation Marathon

Daniel Peter Blair was a man determined to continue to masturbate......no matter what happened. He went to visit his friend Kylie Louise Wilson, while at her house he took some amphetamines before having a shower. Whilst in the bathroom, Mr Blair, 32, began pleasuring himself, before moving to Wilson's bedroom, where he rolled around naked on her bed and continued his lewd conduct. He returned to the bathroom for more and was busted by Wilson, who was attempting to bath her three-and-a-half year-old daughter. After he ignored her repeated requests to stop, Kylie Wilson went to the kitchen, found a knife and returned to stab Mr. Blair twice in the shoulder.

Crown prosecutors said Mr Blair paused only to put on his shorts and flee outside to wait for police to arrive, but was again overcome by the urge. "Despite his injury, it seems (Mr Blair) continued to masturbate while in the garage," the prosecutor said. Police took him to hospital where he received treatment for the minor stab wounds.

Senior Judge Gilbert Trafford Walker accepted the Crown's submission that Wilson had been subjected to "grossly offensive conduct ... which in a moral sense amounts to extreme provocation." He sentenced her to nine months' jail but ordered that she be immediately released on parole.

Porn Star Sued over Name

It is a well known fact that Porn Stars don't use their real names. So it was no surprise that when Lara Madden 25, decided to go into "the business" she used a stage name, something she thought would be alluring and distinctive. The name she chose and used in about a dozen x-rated movies was Syvette Wimberly. That is what got her into trouble. It turns out that not only is the name Syvette Wimberly not unique, but it belongs to a real person who used to be Lara's classmate at Kingwood High School.

The real Syvette Wimberly is now suing Lara Madden for invasion of privacy and emotional distress, claiming that her name was stolen.
"Really on a weekly, if not daily basis, my client has had to deal with odd phone calls, former classmates that didn't know her that well sending her e-mails about whether she's now in the adult film industry and just a general lack of safety for her," attorney Caj D. Boatwright said.

Wimberly is also suing Vivid Entertainment, the porn distributor that produced Madden's videos. She's asking for monetary damages and an injunction to stop Madden from using her name. Legal analyst Brian Wice said that's an appeal likely to win sympathy from a jury if the case goes to trial.
"It's not like they pulled the name "Jane Doe" or "Barbara Smith" out of thin air. They pulled a name that's fairly peculiar to one woman in Harris County, Texas, and that's the kind of coincidence or lack of coincidence that's going to get somebody's attention" Wice said.

 


 


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