'they were beaten and were happy with the results' ... HEH! :- ) Actually Clint Eastwood said something like that in his orangutan movie. "I'm gettin' so I like the pain" ...
Legally this is underlining the crux of the matter. In my view, you set yourself up for paradoxes when you try to apply rational, 1-law-applied-equally-for-a-community-of-300,000,000, standards of behavior to --- > behavior that would be called, by George Washington, inherently irrational behavior.
Am not saying that paddling role play between man and wife is twisted, but my hunch is that the BDSM folks who are in jail are not there for light paddling role play.
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Would be interested in Mojician's legal opinion on this precise issue: application of 'common sense' legal standards to people who voluntarily reject the common paradigm. It's going to get real complex real quick. People handle snakes -- in the presence of their children -- in the name of freedom of religion, right?
Let me ask in a (hopefully) surgeon-cool manner: is there a legal ground for the concept of 'perversion'? Is anything classified as such by the State ... amputation in the name of eroticism, necrophilia, etc?
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