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Whoa.

Posted by Mr. Poe | February 13, 2008 12:02 PM
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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.

Posted by michael strangeways | February 13, 2008 12:11 PM
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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.

Posted by Lorin | February 13, 2008 12:33 PM
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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.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | February 13, 2008 12:41 PM
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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.

Posted by Geni | February 13, 2008 1:10 PM
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Please, Dan, "who":

the 67 year old who
the man who

People are not "that"s!

That is all. Carry on.

Posted by kinkyforgrammar | February 13, 2008 1:16 PM
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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.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | February 13, 2008 1:28 PM
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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.

Posted by left coast | February 13, 2008 1:49 PM
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here's hoping Karma bites this Howard Rubenstein mother fucker on his ass. I'm think a gay hooker scandal would do it.

Posted by Mike in MO | February 13, 2008 1:49 PM
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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.

Posted by Greg | February 13, 2008 1:54 PM
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I'm thinkING

Posted by Mike in MO | February 13, 2008 1:55 PM
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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!

Posted by Queen_of_Sleaze | February 13, 2008 2:02 PM
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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.

Posted by fnarf | February 13, 2008 2:02 PM
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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.

Posted by inkweary | February 13, 2008 2:14 PM
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@8, you buy it on Sunday if you weren't in New York on Saturday.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | February 13, 2008 2:55 PM
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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.

Posted by miss_m | February 13, 2008 3:08 PM
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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?

Posted by Westside forever | February 13, 2008 3:16 PM
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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....

Posted by Matty Worth | February 13, 2008 3:49 PM
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Disorientated? DISORIENTATED? Geez, Savage, at least the Post used the right word.

Posted by elm | February 13, 2008 4:53 PM
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You're going to out kinksters at the Post? Liz Smith must be getting nervous...

Posted by Boomer in NYC | February 13, 2008 8:23 PM
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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.

Posted by Emily | February 14, 2008 7:00 AM
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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.

Posted by Vince | February 14, 2008 8:59 AM
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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.

Posted by Ryan | February 14, 2008 9:50 AM
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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.

Posted by NYC_Fag_Stripper | February 14, 2008 5:34 PM

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