Dominatrix Walks for Efficient Body Work

Professional
dominatrix Barbara Asher was acquitted yesterday of involuntary manslaughter
in the death of a New Hampshire man who prosecutors said suffered a fatal
heart attack while strapped to a bondage rack in her Quincy condominium.

Prosecutors had argued that Asher, 56, did nothing to help Michael Lord,
53, of North Hampton as he died during the July 2000 session, out of fear
that calling authorities would have jeopardized her dominatrix business.
The prosecutors said she and a boyfriend chopped up Lord’s 275-pound body
and dumped the parts in a trash bin behind a Chinese restaurant in Augusta,
Maine.

Lord’s corpse was never found, which produced a rare legal situation:
Prosecutors were forced to try Asher for manslaughter without irrefutable
proof that a man had died, his body.

from the Boston
Globe

Many are the lessons to be learned from this hoary yarn. Even a 275-pound
guy named "Lord" can need a little discipline from time to time.
We need some kind of licensing board to give physicals to consenting adults
before they are allowed to participate in S & M activities. Professionals
in the sex trade should keep plenty on heavy-duty trash bags on hand at
all times. It helps to have the number of a good "Cleaner" (think
Harvey Keitel
.as Winston ‘The Wolf’ in Pulp Fiction) in your little black book. It
also helps to have the numbers of certain high ranking politicians in
your little black book (which never came to light). Finally, don’t eat
at Chinese Restaurants in Augusta, Maine, or anywhere else, for that matter.