Slog - Comments on "The Post will happily name every adult caught in a dog collar." http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c That's what a New York Post spokesperson, Howard Rubenstein, told Jeff Bercovici at Portfolio.com. Bercovici called the Post--and me--after the New York City tabloid ran a story in which they named the 67 year-old that almost choked to death in a bondage-scene-gone-wrong at the famous Nutcracker Suite last week. Not only did the Post name the man, a retired college professor, it also called his wife and told her the news. Says Bercovici: Paying for erotic favors is okay, as long as your tastes are generic. That, in a nutshell, is the sexual ethic of the New York Post. How... Copyright 2008 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:56:21 -0800 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:34:07 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe Whoa.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936480 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936480 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:02:22 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways reprehensible to be sure, but not that surprising; it IS the NY Post after all. And small town papers all across the country still post names of men arrested for sex cruising.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936524 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936524 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:11:15 -0800 Comment by Lorin I hate the Post. I am ashamed that it considers itself a NYC paper, and am routinely appaled at the headlines they print, as my neighbors on the subway display them for me. "They have a good sports section" or "I read it for the SuDoKu" is a sad excuse to give money to them.

]]> Lorin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936623 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936623 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:33:21 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty I was in NYC a couple weeks ago and wanted a newspaper to read on the plane. Well, it was Sunday, and if you've ever seen the Sunday Times, you know you practically need a wheelbarrow to carry it, so I bought a Post. A great newspaper? Hell no. But still better than what passes for a ndwspapers in half the cities in this country. Which, of course, doesn't even begin to excuse their outing this poor schmuck.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936647 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936647 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:41:33 -0800 Comment by Geni What I want to know is, what adult has never worn a collar, or similarly played with bondage toys. If you haven't, well, that's...that's just...that's just sad, that's what that is. Not so much as a scarf?

I mean, if it's their mission to name every New Yorker who ever played bondage games, that's going to be one hella long-ass list.

]]> Geni http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936734 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936734 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:10:01 -0800 Comment by kinkyforgrammar Please, Dan, "who":

the 67 year old who
the man who

People are not "that"s!

That is all. Carry on.

]]> kinkyforgrammar http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936747 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936747 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:16:33 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty Um, I've never worn a collar. That said, I do have a collection of bondage toys that would make most of you green with envy. Or perhaps purple with poor circulation.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936799 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936799 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:28:59 -0800 Comment by left coast Dan, your first mistake is thinking that ethics and the Post have anything to do with each other. Rupert Murdoch and ethics couldn't have less to do with each other.

@4, are you kidding? The Post is the Enquirer. Anyone who'd buy the Post (fyi, its weekend edition is published on Saturday moron - no one buys it on Sunday, NO ONE!) rather than the Times is not to believed on anything other than who's fat/cheating/fashionable this week in Hollywood.

]]> left coast http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936863 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936863 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:49:37 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO here's hoping Karma bites this Howard Rubenstein mother fucker on his ass. I'm think a gay hooker scandal would do it.

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936865 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936865 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:49:46 -0800 Comment by Greg The problem with your plan is that "outing" the kinky behavior of execs and publishers still helps perpetuate the idea that kinky sex is something to be ashamed of.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936882 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936882 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:54:38 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO I'm thinkING

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936883 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936883 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:55:08 -0800 Comment by Queen_of_Sleaze Maybe if the poor guy's (presumably) ugly old bat of a wife would be a caring, good GGG wife and slap him around once in awhile he wouldn't have to look elsewhere.

It makes me sad that he has been made to feel ashamed of what makes him happy when I'm sure he could find a perfectly nice dirty old bat to marry instead!

]]> Queen_of_Sleaze http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936903 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936903 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:02:12 -0800 Comment by fnarf The Post would LOVE it if the kinksters declared war on them. You need to understand your market. New York is mostly not downtown hipsters.

]]> fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936905 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936905 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:02:44 -0800 Comment by inkweary This reminds me of the newspaper in rural Tennesee that posted the names of all those men caught cruising the local park. That was Slogged on that last summer; one of those men commited suicide, others lost their jobs and/or families. That paper was reprehensible, and so is the Post.

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936934 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c936934 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:14:11 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty @8, you buy it on Sunday if you weren't in New York on Saturday.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c937069 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c937069 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:55:43 -0800 Comment by miss_m Poor guy. Although, the upside is that this sort of stuff is very common, and so many people will just shrug at the news.

If The Post starts doing this sort of story regularly, it will become a really, really boring publication. A list of guys who frequent risque sex clubs -- meh. Might as well read the phone book.

]]> miss_m http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c937127 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c937127 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:08:01 -0800 Comment by Westside forever Rupert Murdoc has gone way, WAY beyond garden variety BDSM--his shit makes a dog collar look positively pale.

Check out: http://www.slate.com/id/2184197

Who knew he was such a groveling bottom?

]]> Westside forever http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c937158 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c937158 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:16:35 -0800 Comment by Matty Worth While we're on the whole "eye for an eye" kick, when are the Capitol Hill queers finally going to band together for a little breeder bashing? It feels like I've been waiting to drag an assumed str8 boy behind my car for YEARS now....

]]> Matty Worth http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c937299 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c937299 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:49:33 -0800 Comment by elm Disorientated? DISORIENTATED? Geez, Savage, at least the Post used the right word.

]]> elm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c937520 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c937520 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:53:10 -0800 Comment by Boomer in NYC You're going to out kinksters at the Post? Liz Smith must be getting nervous...

]]> Boomer in NYC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c937830 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c937830 Media Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:23:17 -0800 Comment by Emily Considering we can't really boycott The Post--what are we going to do, continue not buying it?--Scanner Blog has called a sex boycott of people who read The Post. That includes you Mr. Airport Man.

]]> Emily http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c938055 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c938055 Media Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:00:42 -0800 Comment by Vince Hopefully, he will sue the shit out of the rag for "invasion of privacy" making him stinking rich. That way he can buy his wife anything her little heart desires. And teach those turds at The Post a lesson.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c938106 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c938106 Media Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:59:51 -0800 Comment by Ryan The Post can no longer be considered a newspaper, and will forever be referred to hereafter as "that bullshit tabloid."

The lack of journalistic ethics on display here is dizzying. It may not be libel, but it's incredibly irresponsible behavior.

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c938178 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c938178 Media Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:50:15 -0800 Comment by NYC_Fag_Stripper Dan, I am 100% behind you on this and I'm so glad you are one of the few people speaking out on this topic. I was a fag stripper for almost my entire college career (school wasn't cheap in NYC in the mid 90's...plus booze, drugs, music and sweaty men can be a good time if you're in the right mood) and the number of well known/famous/celebs that came in the place was staggering. One Post wonk was a regular, and everyone knew he was a writer because he got loaded and ran his mouth off to seem important. Lawyers at some of the whitest of white shoe firms, movie producers and even Chasidic Jewish leaders were regular clients. I'm certain most other sex workers have had similar experiences. I'm so tired of people in the public eye denying they have kinks, and then coming down on some person like this poor guy. Get off your moral high horse. It's a joke. We ALL like nasty freaky sex, we're human and that's the way we are wired up.


Also, your podcast is one of the entertainment highlights of my week.

]]> NYC_Fag_Stripper http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c939129 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_post_will_happily_name_every_adult_c#c939129 Media Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:34:07 -0800