Sex For Fun News

The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office have updated their travel advice to Dubai to reflect the recent jailing of the Brits caught kissing on the beach:

Women should dress in a modest way, particularly in Sharjah and Ajman Emirates where Islamic law is rigorously enforced. Clothes should cover the tops of the arms and legs, and underwear should not be visible.

Public displays of affection are frowned upon, and there have been several arrests for kissing in public. Sex outside of marriage is illegal, and problems will be encountered if an unmarried woman gives birth in the UAE. These problems can range from a refusal to issue a birth certificate to arrest and imprisonment. A marriage certificate has to be provided to the UAE authorities to obtain a birth certificate. Cohabitation, adultery and homosexual behaviour are also illegal.

Swearing or making rude gestures is considered an obscene act and offenders can be prosecuted. It has been known for offenders to receive a six-month jail sentence for such an act. Particular caution should be exercised when dealing with the police and other officials.

The British man convicted of having sex on a Dubai beach is still in jail, his solicitor said.

Vince Acors was due to land at Heathrow yesterday. He and Michelle Palmer received suspended jail sentences for public indecency.

Update: Re-arrested

23rd December 2008. See article from telegraph.co.uk

Vince Acors has been re-arrested as he prepared to board a flight back to Britain, his lawyer said.

He was detained at Dubai Airport and returned to jail as his flight confirmation was allegedly not in order.

His lawyer Andrew Crossley said tonight: The return of Vince Acors has been delayed yet again and he will not be returning to the UK tomorrow. The situation is close to becoming farcical and Vince is severely disappointed.

He added: After having booked and confirmed his return flight on three separate occasions through the course of the day Vince was re-arrested at Dubai Airport, as his flight confirmation was allegedly not in order. He has been returned to jail, his precise return is now unknown.

Update: Returned

25th December 2008. See article from news.bbc.co.uk

A British man who was convicted of having sex on a beach in Dubai has flown home, his lawyer says.

Vince Acors was given a jail sentence suspended on appeal, along with Michelle Palmer.

Acors was due to fly home earlier but was re-arrested just before boarding a flight because his visa had expired.

Palmeris already in the UK.

A campaign to allow nude bathing on a beach in the Eastern Suburbs has the backing of Sydney's Lord Mayor.

Clover Moore has written to the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, Carmel Tebbutt, in her capacity as the mayor for Sydney, asking the minister to review the classification of Little Congwong beach on Botany Bay, La Perouse.

In the letter Ms Moore wrote that the NSW Free Beach Action Group's campaign had generated community support, demonstrated by a recent online poll by the Southern Courier newspaper.

There were 320 votes in support of a two-year nudity trial at the beach and 32 votes against the plan.

Connecticut police have arrested three men accused of running a swingers' club inside a hotel bar.

E-mailed photos of risqué behavior led police to Club 91 and the Beverly Hills Suites in Windsor Locks.

They said on weekends the club would run Swingers Groups where men and women came to either engage in or watch sexual activity.

When killjoy police raided last month, they said they witnessed it first hand and report seeing 60 to 70 people inside the club.

All of them paid a $40 admission to get in. Police arrested the three men who they said organized the Swingers Groups.

Nicholas Maulucci faces obscenity and public indecency charges while Brian True and Sharok Jacobi face criminal liability to commit those two charges.

Supposed liquor law violations at the club included smoking inside a public building, nudity, sex acts, not serving food and improper use of a service bar.

Two German tourists were caught in the act and fined Bt500 each for having sex inside an ancient temple in Ayutthaya a central province of Thailand.

The couple were found by an official of National Historical Park of Ayutthaya having sex on a wall of the Srisanphet Temple at 12:30 pm.

They stopped when the park official, Phaithoon Puengthong, blew his whistle while running toward them.

The couple were handed over to police and were fined Bt500 (£10) each before released.

A Brisbane swingers club has asked the City Council for official approval as a nightclub venue.

Couples International runs partner-swapping nights at an industrial estate in Woolloongabba.

The Brisbane City Council says the application is controversial, but Councillor Helen Abrahams says there have been no complaints lodged so far: Council cannot make a determination on the ethic grounds or the moral grounds of a swingers club . They have to make it on, this is a club, a nightclub, and what are the impacts of that nightclub ... on the local residents?

Club owner Brian Horn says he has met Council guidelines.

The lifestyle has become more accepted, he said.

If approved, the club would be Queensland's first official swingers club.

The Gloucester police are taking a keen interest in open air sex around Birdlip. They have assigned a sympathetic ear to the case and are looking solutions that meet the needs of all interested parties.

The police summarise the situation:

There has been an identified problem at Barrow Wake, Crickley Hill and at Shab Hill, Birdlip, Gloucestershire for many years.

It is a cruising spot and guys do go there for sex but that is not the only activity. There is heterosexual and group sex interest and activity also. The dogging websites show us this. It is a real mix of a public sex environment not unique to one community; as well as working land, a rural residential area and much loved beauty spot for walkers.

Certainly there has been a perceived problem for at least five years and residents say that activity has increased over the last few years. This could be as a result of Internet sites (for example "dogging" sites) that advertise it. Our intelligence and experience indicates that people travel long distances from all over the country to use the site as a public sex environment. I think this has been a consequence of the Internet as an information medium for persons with this interest.

The issue has been looked at on several occasions, not only by the Police but also in Partnership with other Agencies. Previous methods of dealing with the issue had been focused on deterrent rather than engagement and education of those visiting the area. What we are trying to do now is to bring some improvement to the area through consultation, identifying and addressing specific problems in partnership

Police have summarised the complaints they receive:

"Dogging", males seen exposing themselves, sex associated litter, damage to trees. There is one area that is known as the condom tree (no explanation needed really). There are also apparent ligatures where people are tied up. There is also anti social behaviour with vehicles and local residents feeling generally intimidated. Locals report their families being propositioned and followed up driveways to their residences.

One of the first things we wanted to do with our fresh look was identify what the behaviour was that was of issue. From this exercise we identified that not only was it activity of a sexual nature that was of concern, but the litter at the location for example condoms, sexual magazines, clothing both male and female garments, lubricant containers, packaging. Then there is fly tipping of both residential and commercial waste, graffiti, including of a Homophobic nature, criminal damage.

The key messages that the police would like to get across:

We want people using the site as a public sex environment to consider their own behaviour and actions at the site, not only with regard to the environment but also in relation to residents, farmers and other site users. The litter problem, for example, considerably hardens attitudes and ultimately if people don't self regulate the law has to take its course. We won't transform a public sex environment from being one to not being one overnight but we can try to ensure a positive environment and encourage a responsible approach to behaviour and conduct that impacts upon others.

We want all users to be safe.

We want to work with all people using the site to bring about positive change and assist with and support actions to that end.

The Roman Catholic Church is opposing a nudist beach festival in Sicily billed as a “celebration of nudity” over fears of an invasion of naked sunbathers.

The Church complained after the mayor of Cattolica Eraclea, the village nearest to the planned festival on Capo Bianco recently issued a decree allowing free use of Capo Bianco by lovers of nude sunbathing.

But Father Giuseppe Miliziano, the parish priest, said: The beach belongs to the state, not to the local council. If the state decided to allow people to take their clothes off, there is not much I could do about it. But as far as I am aware no such authorisation has been issued.

Nude sunbathing is illegal in Italy but a few naturist beaches are authorised by councils if they are patrolled by naturist associations.

The Capo Bianco festival, due to take place between May 23 and May 25, is organised by the Italian Naturist Federation, based in Turin, and the Sicilian Naturist Association. The beach is also near Agrigento and the ruins of Eraclea Minoa.

It's been the center of nutter controversy for months. Now the Duncanville City Council thinks it has a way to halt activity at the Cherry Pit "swingers" club.

Council members changed the wording of a city ordinance to redefine a "sex club."

Such clubs are banned from the entire city except for an area off Highway 67.

The council modified the definition of "sex club" to include the types of sexual behavior prohibited in clubs where people are paying to attend.

They say the Cherry Pit — which operates in a house in a residential neighborhood — is in violation of at least three city ordinances. The council is moving closer to holding a hearing so they'll be able to shut the club down, but still let the homeowners remain.

An apparent swingers' sex club that has 'outraged' nearby nutters in a Central Florida neighborhood has been ordered to shut down in two weeks.

Groups of people interested in having sex with multiple partners have recently migrated to a large home in Oak Groves, Brevard County.

The home, called The Hunt Club, touts on its Web site group buffet-style dining, group rooms, a stage and dancing pole, swimming pool, and "The Pink Cauldron," a five-person hot tub.

After complaints from nutters prompted police to investigate the home, the city issued the Hunt Club a cease and desist letter.

The city determined the house is being used as a business in a residential neighborhood -- which is against city code.

Richard Spaulding, who lives in the controversial house, said he is doing nothing wrong and his neighbors are making a fuss over nothing: We are not doing anything illegal and we are just having a party, that is it. Chances are because of them and all of the attention they brought on us, we won't probably be able to do (this) much longer or any longer.

Gary Nalder gave a short answer to the question of why he chose to convert a photography studio in Orange to an underground swingers club.

Sex sells, he said with a smile.

Nalder obtained a Sexually-Orientated Business License from the city in 2004 indicating he planned to run a nude and semi-nude photography studio at 1548 N. Brian St. Instead, the photography studio turned into Club Amnesty, which held weekly sex parties for couples for more than three years.

City officials recently cited Nalder for operating without a proper business license and violating convenient city and fire code violations.

Nalder said They want us to get a conditional use license or permit, which means that it has to go through the council, through a committee, through police and fire, the city attorney's office, planning and business license. I think it's going to be impossible.

City Attorney David DeBerry said the club would only need a conditional use permit to allow patrons to bring in alcohol: If you are going to have alcohol, whether it's brought in by patrons or you sell it, you need an alcohol license. All alcohol licenses, in turn, require a conditional use permit from the city.

Nalder said he planned to relocate the club elsewhere in 2009.

The swingers club on Union Street, Schenectady, New York State, may soon be shutting down. Owner Robert Alexson is putting the building up for sale.

Alexson said his decision to sell has nothing to do with his run-ins with city officials over the parties he hosts where couples can swap partners for sex. The city had told him he must move his parties out of the residential neighborhood on Union Street by the end of October, but he continued to party all winter without any apparent repercussions.

Alexson has insisted for years that the city cannot legally stop him from running the parties: What I do in the privacy of my own house is none of their business .

City officials disagree, but Corporation Counsel L. John Van Norden said he was pleased by the news that Alexson would be shutting himself down.

Van Norden added that Alexson's swinger parties, once a booming business that Alexson said brought in more than a thousand dollars each weekend, seem to have died down since the city told him to cease and desist: He's not advertising parties anymore. He has advertised three bus trips. It looked like it was really drying up.

Nutters in a North Devon village have expressed anger at a local businessman's plans to open a swingers' club.

Later this month Roger Stanbury is launching Club Vanilla , a monthly adult party in a converted barn on his caravan park in Horsewell, Devon, complete with Jacuzzi, dance floor and "play areas".

For a £45 entrance fee, adventurous couples can enjoy a cocktail and watch an "exotic floor show", avail themselves of free condoms and make use of large double beds in public rooms. Its website adds: There's no need to be nervous, have a relaxing cocktail and speak to our friendly bar staff who will put you at ease.

Far from being at ease, however, many of Stanbury's neighbours in the rural village and nearby Bishops Tawton are predictably furious.

Stanbury has a licence allowing him to hold 12 late-night events every year. He is now inviting swingers to enjoy having fun with other couples aged over 21 at the launch on April 26: This is for consenting adult couples and is not bothering anyone. It's part of a nice and quiet evening at a nice and quiet adult venue.

North Devon council said it was powerless to stop the club since there are no restrictions on the licence.

Update: For Sale

1st February 2009. See article from metro.co.uk

A farm which converted one of its barns into a swingers club is up for sale, estate agents said today.

Horswell Farm is on the market and includes "Club Vanilla", a barn that was converted to a venue for couples who swap sexual partners.

The property, near the village of Bishops Tawton in Devon, is on sale for £650,000 through agents Nancekivell and Co who describe the club as a "licensed entertainment venue" including a kitchen area, store room, insulated walls and central heating.

A Wollongong sex-on-premises venue for gays, bisexuals, swingers and straight-identifying men has closed after less than a month of business.

The Men's Social Club proprietor, Allan Denis, blames the Illawarra Mercury newspaper for the negative publicity generated by an article that featured a photograph of the premises.

Denis told Evolution Online he was forced to close the club after a significant drop in clientele and an avalanche of homophobic threats.

Denis says he had specified the 'discreet' nature of the venue in advertisements with the Mercury, but fears his clientele's anonymity became compromised by the photograph's publication: The ad was very specific, it said [that we provide a] 'discreet', safe, secure environment. Discreet's not just a word, it's a way of life. I figured that because I was a client of them, they would respect that. You take that away, you ruin the club, and that's exactly what they did - even though I was paying them to run this ad for about four months.

The day after the article went to print, Denis claims the club received over a hundred phone threats, calling him and his staff 'fucking faggots' who will 'burn in hell.' Young passers-by heckled and threw eggs at the venue. Such actions persisted until Denis closed the venue on February 29.

Denis says only two patrons returned the day after the article went to print, with four on the weekend, as compared to the average of 40 patrons per day in the prior weeks.

The venue had been approved as a 'sex-on-premises establishment' under Wollongong City Council's 'Sex Industry Development Control Plan' devised September 2005. The plan specifies that an establishment earns an income by charging fees for patrons to use designated areas to have casual sex with one another. The plan also specifies the importance of discretion for patrons.

Community reaction may be put down to an 'aesthetic of disgust' surrounding sex venues, according to Penny Crofts, senior lecturer in Law at the University of Technology Sydney. In her conference paper at a 2006 University of Melbourne conference, 'Visual Contamination: Disgust and the regulation of brothels', Crofts addressed the stigmas associated with brothels, which are applicable to all sex venues. Crofts says brothels trigger disgust by reminding people of sex outside of love, the 'perceived immorality' of the practices, and the threat of corrupting children.

SwingFest 2008; the world's largest swingers party and swinger lifestyle convention will be hosted by adult megastar Mary Carey and take place July 31 to Aug. 3, 2008 at the beautiful beachside Westin Diplomat Resort in Hollywood, Florida. The 4 day event is $300 USD per couple and includes buffet meals throughout the day, open bars in the evening, goody-bag, daily seminars, contest admissions, giveaways, entrance to wild parties.

Lawrence G. Walters will present Legal Issues Affecting Swingers Clubs , a seminar scheduled on August 2. The seminar will offer an overview of the legal issues affecting the swinger lifestyle community, including zoning and licensing laws, criminal statutes, nuisance abatement ordinances, and private civil actions.

Few will protest against the latest victory for women's rights. Ladies in Copenhagen will now be allowed to swim and walk around topless in public pools.

The decision is the result of a year-long campaign by a pressure group, the Topless Front, which says women should be treated the same as bare-chested men.

Campaign leader Astrid Vang, 20, who took her shirt off with others to protest at a leisure centre at Christmas, said: We women would like to decide by ourselves when our breasts should be sexual and when not. In swimming pools they should not and that is why the breasts should not be covered - We will bathe topless just like men.

In Copenhagen yesterday, the city's Culture and Leisure Committee voted overwhelmingly to allow topless bathing.

Frank Hedegaard, of the Socialist People's Party, said: I cannot understand what some people find so offensive about women's breasts. This decision is important in order to stop the idea that women's bodies are only sex objects.

After four years of processing subscription payments for Going Natural magazine, PayPal has abruptly cancelled service to its publisher, the Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN).

Attempts to get an explanation as to how the magazine violates PayPal's "acceptable use" policy have been met with generic e-mails from faceless and implacable customer-service personnel. Those e-mails falsely claim the magazine is pornographic, and sells sexually oriented goods or services involving minors or services for which the purpose is to facilitate meetings for sexually oriented activities.

Going Natural magazine is devoted to naturism (or nudism), a social movement over a hundred years old and unrelated to sexual activity.

The FCN is not the first naturist organization to be rejected by PayPal, which arbitrarily denies service to persons or organizations it alone deems socially unacceptable.

PayPal's decision about Going Natural and its claims about the FCN are unfounded embellishments born of ignorance, notes Judy Williams, Government Affairs Director for the FCN.

Dutch council officials will permit gay sex in public areas but fine dog owners who let their pets off the leash in Amsterdam's Vondelpark.

Paul van Grieken, an Alderman in the Oud-Zuid district of the city, has startled many Amsterdammers, despite their famously liberal attitudes, with plans to allow public sex as part of this summer's new rules of conduct for the country's best-known park.

Why should we try to impose something that is actually impossible to impose, which also causes little bother for others and for a certain group actually means much pleasure?, he said.

The park's rose garden has become famous as a trysting spot for gay men looking for uncomplicated sexual encounters. Mr van Grieken stresses that tolerance to "cruising" gays, aimed at protecting homosexuals from violence, will have "strict rules attached".

Thus, condoms must always be cleared away, it must never take place in the neighbourhood of children's playgrounds and the sex must be restricted to the evening and night-time, he said.

The new park rules have the blessing of the Dutch police, who have urged all Dutch parks to follow Amsterdam's lead.

The North Carolina city of Lenoir has banned an alleged swingers club from operating in its current location.

Earlier this week nutters raised concerns about the building's proximity to several churches. City officials decided to look into whether the club would be considered an adult business, which would restrict where it can operate.

As the city investigated, the fire marshal shut the building down supposedly because of a number of fire code violations. Then the Western Carolina Friends club, which is believed to cater to swingers, was dealt another blow when the city determined that it did indeed meet the definition of an adult business, the Lenoir city manager said.

City Manager Lane Bailey said city ordinances strictly forbid adult businesses from operating near churches, so even when the building meets fire codes, the club still cannot operate there.

City workers posted “notice of violation” signs across the property stating the club must cease activities immediately or be fined $50 a day.

A nutter from the church across the street saw the notice and shouted, Hallelujah!

A swingers' club is operating four nights a week out of a converted garage without planning approval.

Couples International, with four bedrooms and a bondage area, opened at 5 Holden St, Woolloongabba in August 2006.

In November last year club owners Bryan and Leesa Horn submitted an application for a BYO nightclub-style venue after a visit from Brisbane City Council.

If the council does approve the club, the Horns said it would be a first for Queensland.

Despite their failure to lodge a development application until November, the Horns said they would rather operate in a regulated environment: We’re keen to make a real success of the business and to do that you need the i’s dotted and the t’s crossed.

The Horns won’t face objections from their immediate neighbours, who said the club’s late-night hours helped reduce property damage at night and traffic congestion during the day.

The couple argued the club enhanced relationships for confident and self-assured couples by providing a spark.

Organisers of National Fetish Day had revealed that MP Ronnie Campbell had promised to wear purple to support a day of awareness.

Ronnie Campbell Is he? Isn't he?

But the MP for Blyth Valley, Northumberland, withdrew his backing after the Sunday Sun explained the kinky connotations of the word “fetish” which he was supposedly not aware of.

Campbell revealed he thought “fetish” was just another word for “worry” instead of a description of people who get their kicks in unusual ways.

When we told him, Campbell said: Oh my God almighty, my God, is that what a fetish is? I thought a fetish was a worry, like worrying about backing the right horse.

When we first spoke to Campbell about National Fetish Day he said: I think my secretary must have mentioned this. I have no problem with it and I am happy to show my support. I have a purple tie and a purple shirt so I will be able to wear their colours.

Are they? Aren't they?

National Fetish Day is on the 21st January.

Using the tag line of “Perverts Wear Purple those that support this day will be wearing about their person something that is purple, like a shirt, a tie, a skirt, a hair band.

The colour purple was chosen because of its heavy use in BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism) circles.

Today's National Fetish Day is part of a campaign against a law to criminalise the possession of extreme pornography which threatens the BDSM community.

The City of Duncanville has countersued the host of a neighborhood swingers club, continuing a legal battle that began when the city passed an ordinance aimed at shuttering the sex parties for good.

The Dallas suburb wants a judge to order Jim Trulock to stop the weekend gatherings at his home, which attract upward of 100 guests and transform his house into "The Cherry Pit."

The city's lawsuit alleges that The Cherry Pit poses a risk to public health by not having any measures or policy in place to safeguard against the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. The suit also alleges that the club has harmed the city's image and lowered property values.

Thought you guys may be interested..... the idea seems to be gathering speed and support on the web.... the tagline this year is 'perverts wear purple'.... anyone supportive of the idea can wear purple to some degree... its a deniable colour...but its also an identifier.... is he? isn't she?

Back in October 2007, a discussion was started on an Informed Consent website forum board as to whether ‘fetish’ should be allowed to have a National Day, considering that so many other causes and/or beliefs were celebrated with their own National Day.

People decided that the vision of a National Fetish Day was something that could really happen. A date was chosen that gave enough time to spread the word of what the day stood for. The next big problem was as to how people with a fetish could celebrate their ideas and life choices; a slogan was born, “Perverts Wear Purple”. Why purple? Purple is a colour that is heavily represented in BDSM/fet art, style and clothing. Purple is a colour that is still unusual enough to be different yet common enough to be deniable... so no-one wearing purple needs to be scared they are automatically outing themselves. Finally, it sounds good in a catchy slogan!

Why should we do anything in particular on this day? We often hear the word ‘community’ used when speaking of BDSM and fetish. An open-minded and understanding community that is inclusive to all. ‘We’ may claim to be inclusive to all but do others understand what we do and enjoy? Many, yes. Some, no. The British government is currently legislating to criminalise the possession of images - even if the pictures are of consenting fun and no-one was harmed.

By joining this fun ‘National Fetish Day – Perverts Wear Purple’ event, you as an individual will be joined by fellow community people all over the country in saying ‘It’s ok to enjoy what I enjoy’ without damaging your ‘vanilla’ identity or integrity.

So imagine it. You're harming no-one by wearing an item of purple clothing on this day and you smile to yourself whenever you think *why* you're wearing it...BUT...what will run through your mind when you see someone else wearing a purple item of clothing? Imagine this happening across the country at the same time on the same day. Everyone who contributed to the threads, everyone who secretly read it on websites, everyone who heard about the idea and thought it would be a bit of fun. All these perverts, all over, all doing the same thing at the same time for the same reason.

No, this simple act *isn't* going to change the world or laws or social way of thinking. However, I genuinely believe that it might make participants (or even those that have heard but don't join in) think about this sub-culture, what it is, what it means to us and feel a slight bit of unity.

Enjoy and be proud, it’s ok to be you!