Althouse: "While Victor became a familiar face around town, jogging or walking the couple’s pet Labradors..."

February 18, 2013

"While Victor became a familiar face around town, jogging or walking the couple’s pet Labradors..."

"... Sharon became a cybergeek, staring day and night into the blue glow of her computer screen."

26 comments:

Eclecticity said...: Why this? Why now? E.; 2/18/13, 10:46 AM
Known Unknown said...: I blame Conway Twitty.; 2/18/13, 10:48 AM
David-2 said...: Wait, this isn't a Gatsby quote?; 2/18/13, 10:50 AM
edutcher said...: Fifty Shades of Gray fades to one.; 2/18/13, 10:51 AM
Bob R said...: "Give women what they ask for and when the demands end, the answer will be known."; 2/18/13, 11:03 AM
KJE said...: Most of us can't choose the manner in which we check out of life, but I'd personally like to avoid anything remotely like that.; 2/18/13, 11:05 AM
Anonymous said...: Spanking should stop at spanking. Except with Mysterious Painters who like Organic Mango pudding.; 2/18/13, 11:08 AM
jr565 said...: After five years of marriage, her Internet interests had grown darker. She began offering her used panties for sale and became a regular visitor to alt.sex newsgroups and sex chat rooms. Using screen names like NanConcentric and Gina108, her posts focused on edgy, illicit themes like sexual torture and snuff sex.
When a newsgroup Samaritan expressed concern, Lopatka sniped, “I did not ask for you preaching to me.”

Yup, yet another alt lifestyle that we must have no judgement about. No preaching about how fantasizing about torture porn and snuff sex. That would be intolerant.

So, fuck her. She lived the life she wanted and now she's dead because of it. Good.; 2/18/13, 11:09 AM
RigelDog said...: Yes, why this...why now? Some kind of Valentine's Day link? Seems almost like an effort to normalize "dark desires."; 2/18/13, 11:15 AM
jr565 said...: This by the way, reminds me of the cannibal case in Germany where a guy who wanted to eat people put out an ad and found someone who agreed to be eaten. They both met and proceeded to eat the guy who consented to be eaten. He actually ate his own flesh until he died.
The odd reaction was one of some libertarians who argued that the state had no right to charge the cannibal with murder because it was consensual behavior.
That begs the question. Can you get consent from a crazy person, being that they're crazy. Isn't consenting to being eaten an earmark of craziness?
Likewise this woman wanting to be choked to death. Even if she "consents" does that absolve you of actions that kill that person?; 2/18/13, 11:18 AM
Anonymous said...: Not all Mysterious Painters who like Mango Pudding lure Unsuspecting Women with fiery red toenails to their Loft in the Hopes of Consensual Spanking.

That would be painting Painters with a wide brush.; 2/18/13, 11:19 AM
jr565 said...: After five years of marriage, her Internet interests had grown darker. She began offering her used panties for sale and became a regular visitor to alt.sex newsgroups and sex chat rooms. Using screen names like NanConcentric and Gina108, her posts focused on edgy, illicit themes like sexual torture and snuff sex.
When a newsgroup Samaritan expressed concern, Lopatka sniped, “I did not ask for you preaching to me.”

Yup, yet another alt lifestyle that we must have no judgement about. No preaching about how fantasizing about torture porn and snuff sex. That would be intolerant.

So, fuck her. She lived the life she wanted and now she's dead because of it. Good.; 2/18/13, 11:20 AM
Michael K said...: Asphyxia is a common sexual fantasy and, apparently works as an aphrodisiac. That is how the coroners find lots of bodies, often dressed (or undressed) in fetish garments and hung in accidental suicides. The photographs are popular in first year medical schools as a shocker.

For example.

"There's a fine line between the state of hypoxia [lack of oxygen in the brain] and death, and it's in that state that a person becomes highly aroused and it's what allows them to orgasm," said Eli Coleman, chair of the sexual health department at the University of Minnesota.

"People usually have safety nets and no intention to die, but something often goes wrong in their calculation," he told ABCNews.com. "Maybe a stool or something they are standing on somehow slips away."

The Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates there are between 500 and 1,000 such deaths in the United States annually, mostly among young men. Many more may be falsely ruled as homicides or suicides.; 2/18/13, 11:22 AM
AllenS said...: Bob Glass, aka "Slowhand," was found guilty of killing his Internet lover. "I never wanted to kill her but she ended up dead," he said.

They all say that, don't they?; 2/18/13, 11:31 AM
Larry J said...: This wierd case raises an interesting point of law: what crime would you charge against him?

She wanted to die during sex and he wanted to kill her, so that sounds like premeditated murder. Yet, she wanted to die so he assisted her in suicide. Did he assist in suicide without a license? Did he just illegally assist in a suicide but somehow that's different than murder? Why did it take the prosecutor so long to make a decision?; 2/18/13, 11:35 AM
tiger said...: FTA: '“I don’t know how much I pulled the rope,” he told investigators. “I never wanted to kill her, but she ended up dead.”

After years of hemming and hawing by both sides, Glass pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in 2000. He was sentenced to four years and five months for his role in Lopatka’s death and another 26 months in connection with sexual images of children found on his computer.

With credit for the time served between his arrest and sentencing, Glass was due for release on March 3, 2002. Two weeks from freedom, he died in prison of a heart attack.'

Wow.; 2/18/13, 11:37 AM
Rob said...: Was it the labrador retrievers who put this crazy idea in her head? It wouldn't be the first time.; 2/18/13, 12:28 PM
Unknown said...: "Two weeks from freedom, he died in prison of a heart attack."

Good.; 2/18/13, 1:07 PM
bagoh20 said...: Holy crap, is my love life boring.; 2/18/13, 1:25 PM
Chip Ahoy said...: I see what he was trying to do with the place. Needs more flamingos.; 2/18/13, 2:25 PM
bagoh20 said...: Judging by the rest of her ideas about a good time, I'd assume the that the uncompromising "character" of his love ranch and it's organic landscaping just added to the romance.; 2/18/13, 3:57 PM
ampersand said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2/18/13, 6:49 PM
ampersand said...: It would have been a nice O'Henry touch if Slowhand had died choking on NanConcentric'c tuna and liver flavored edible panties.; 2/18/13, 7:09 PM
kentuckyliz said...: 11 years after the last event in this sad tale, and their illicit live lives on. Those zombie vampire lovers should write new fan fic endings.

I'm curious what happened to her husband and his wife after all this.

It carries an odd taint, dunnit ? Sort of the perpetually unclean feeling of the Lust sinner in the movie Se7en. Which these two probably enjoyed immensely.; 2/18/13, 7:16 PM
kentuckyliz said...: Se7en is the most horrifying snuff sex never shown on film.; 2/18/13, 7:17 PM
Methadras said...: EMD said...

I blame Conway Twitty.

Death Metal Conway Twitty...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd16RkIHeKk; 2/18/13, 8:34 PM