Strippers arrested (charged with battery) in alleged spanking (AP)

[Up2Late]

(I hope you will look beyond this Stupid Headline and the Odd subject matter here, to see some very troubling issues here. Is this just another "Frivolous Lawsuit" in the making or "Activist Police Enforcement?" or is it just more evidence of our eroding Civil Rights or what?)

Jul 11, 7:38 AM EDT

Strippers arrested in alleged spanking

JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- Three strippers and two nightclub managers have been arrested for allegedly spanking a trucker at his 31st birthday bash and severely bruising his backside.

After his friends paid $25, Keith Lowery was handcuffed and spanked with a 3-foot-long paddle and a belt while one of the strippers restrained his head with her legs, investigators with the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office said.

Kelly Eslick, 21, a stripper at Sensations nightclub in Jacksonville admitted to police that she used a paddle drilled with holes for less air resistance while the two other dancers, Lisa Nolen, 23, and Charlene Smith, 23, used the belt.

The three women were charged with misdemeanor battery, and they and two other club employees - James Daugherty, 31, and Dena Mitchell, 30 - were charged with participating in an obscene performance at a live public show, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison

<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SPANKING_STRIPPERS?SITE=NYMID&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>
(more at link above)

[progressiveboston]

1. Are you kidding me???

Unbelievable...

[ET Awful]

2. Great, now all strippers are gonna want a "spanking release"

Sheesh.

[benburch]

3. Matcom scooped you by several hours!!!

:-)

[Up2Late]

21. That's about how long it took me to figure out a way to present this...

...odd subject, without it looking like I was trying to circumnavigate the rules.

It's a valid topic, but presented in the wrong way, it could turn ugly very quickly.

[Botany]

4. what jeff gannon was not around?

:rofl:

[Moochy]

5. Its arresting how often I forget to charge my strippers batteries

everybody do the Electic Real Doll(tm) Boogaloo

[droidamus2]

6. What about the friends

Since it was his so called 'friends' that instigated this why isn't he pressing charges against them as well? Could it be that he is seeing a way to make a little quick cash down the line when he takes them to civil court? Just askin'.

[bluestateguy]

7. I feel so sorry for the "victim"

Though I really feel for the people of Pulaski County, Arkansas, whose tax dollars will be wasted on the prosecution of this horse shit case.

This nation is at war. Law enforcement resources should not be wasted on interdicting activities between consenting adults.

[LeighAnn]

8. How would you like it?

I'm all for fun and games, but I should think a fellow that isn't expecting to be beaten with a wooden paddle with holes drilled in it and a belt might get a little aggravated about the big surprise.

If a parent had done this to a child, most people here would say the child should be taken away *for good*.

[bluestateguy]

10. Faulty comparison

If a parent had done this to a child, most people here would say the child should be taken away *for good*.

Damn straight. A child cannot consent to such behavior, and while parents are allowed to spank children as a form of discipline, sadism is grounds for the authorities to intervene. But that's if the person being spanked is a child.

If this guy is the one pressing the charges he needs to get a life, get some skin cream for his butt and be a man.

[sandnsea]

12. *sigh* It wasn't a child

It was adults. It would be like friends paying for a canoe trip and then complaining when you got wet.

[converted_democrat]

13. I am assuming from your name you're not a man........

Any guy that has been to a strip club nows that this is standard protocol for all B-Day and Bachelor parties. This happens every night in every strip club in the country.

[LeighAnn]

19. Guess I need to get out more! EOM

[Ian David]

14. Sounds like he may have consented, but it's he-said/she-said

Club adopts spanking policy
Client says birthday swats by topless dancers bruised his bottom
BY CASEY MUNCK ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

A Pulaski County nightclub with topless dancers is now requiring patrons to sign a waiver prior to onstage birthday spankings after a Bald Knob truck driver said his spanking left him bruised, humiliated and unable to work.

<snip>

"We’ve changed things legally now. Mr. (Keith) Lowery is the only one that’s ever tried to file charges. I’d say that was a pretty good record," said James Daugherty, who manages the club’s dancers.

Keith Lowery, who turned 31 on June 17, the day of his spanking, filed a complaint with the Pulaski County sheriff’s office stating that a team of 10 dancers handcuffed him to a pole and repeatedly beat his backside with a leather belt and wooden paddle about 4:30 a.m.

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Daugherty, who was present at the time of the spanking, saw the incident differently.

He said Lowrey was laughing and "running around, carrying on, sticking his rear end out" during the spanking, trying to get dancers to chase him.

After the incident, Lowrey "continued to hang around. He and his friend even continued to tip the girls after he was whipped. I can’t see that he was degraded if he stayed in our bar and continued to tip the girls," Daugherty said.

More (long article):
http://www.ardemgaz.com/ShowStoryTemplate.asp?Path=ArDemocrat/2005/06/30&ID=Ar01502&Section=Arkansas

[daleo]

20. This detail seems oddly appropriate somehow.

"...after a Bald Knob truck driver said his spanking left him bruised..."

[girl gone mad]

22. Yeah, that one jumped out at me, too. n/t

[Ian David]

23. Truck drivers are such sissies

Smokey and The Bandit...

Convoy...

BJ and The Bear...

all bullshit, isn't it?

[Ian David]

9. For more info

<snip>

Amicus Brief - Jovanovic vs. New York
Complete text of affirmation, memorandums and affidavits NCSF filed in the Jovanovic case regarding "consent is not a defense to assault."
Communications Decency Act Lawsuit
http://www.ncsfreedom.org/library/jovanovic/index.htm

<snip>

"The Right's Attack on Sex"
by Eric Rofes and members of the San Francisco Sex/Politics Study Group: We want to provoke discussion and encourage fresh thinking among activists about the relationship of our movement to sex.
http://www.ncsfreedom.org/library/rofes.htm

More:
http://www.ncsfreedom.org/library/index.htm

[6000eliot]

11. What kind of birthday celebration is that?

Sometimes, I just don't get straight people.:silly:

[Ian David]

15. They were from a town called "Bald Knob." Any more questions?

Sometimes I think some of the kinky sex stuff is just the consumer-culture run amok.

Used to be that all you needed to have sex with someone was a warm body and maybe a condom and/or lube.

But now you have to buy wooden this, leather that, rubber these, and latex those.

Suddenly, when you start buying all the leather, feathers, rubber and gizmos, sex gets expensive.

And then there's "keeping up with the kinky Jonses."

"Well, Roger bought HIS girlfriend a 12-foot bull-whip. Why can't you buy ME a 12-foot bull-whip?"

"But Honey, what's wrong with the three-foot whip I bought you for Christmas last year?"

"Well, first of all, YOU didn't buy me that whip. Your MOTHER bought me that whip..."

[6000eliot]

17. Heirloom sex toys?

"Oh look, Honey, it's your grandmother's strapon."

[UncleSepp]

25. I inherited my grandma's lingerie collection

I... can't follow that with a comment, it's... just too weird. No, the neon green babydoll was just too weird.

[DS1]

16. There's nothing worse than a stripper armed with a dull battery

:D

[TankLV]

18. He goes to a sex/strip club - gets what he PAID for, and HE's embarrassed?

Must be from the same school of intelligence as putting FLAMING HOT COFFEE IN YOUR CROTCH and then complaining when you burn yourself!

No, wait, that's already been done!

[Coventina]

24. Well, gee....I guess I'm in the minority on this one

Putting myself in this guy's shoes....I would probably be pretty angry if I ended up with a severely bruised bottom. It sounds to me that the strippers went beyond "kinky" and right into assult.

Moral of this story: don't submit to a b-day spanking at a strip club without a pre-arranged "safety" word that everyone agrees to.