i wanted to post a link to this wapo story

for many reasons. one is; i've been putting off writing on this subject for a LONG time. i have to get my arse in gear and write. it's a subject i both know a bit about AND have had a change of feelings about as well.

it's a subject not many people know about. it's a subject that isn't brought up in polite company. it IS something that happens right next door to you though

i'm NOT talking about the 'sex-party' shite. it's something that is BEYOND sex for most. very much beyond.

Montgomery County sex-party host must role-play by the zoning rules

By Paul Duggan

Washington Post Staff Writer

To understand how Paul Pickthorne got cross-wise with Montgomery County's land-use regulations, you'll need a glossary:

"R-60" is a zoning classification for subdivisions of single-family houses where commercial activity generally isn't permitted. The 6300 block of Tone Drive in Bethesda is such a place, a tidy street of mostly 1950s brick ranchers just across River Road from Walt Whitman High School.

"BDSM" is short for "bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism." Velvet whips, leather hoods, six-inch stiletto heels, that kind of thing. If you were into the BDSM scene and periodically threw BDSM parties in your home -- as Pickthorne, a burly, jovial Briton, does in the castlelike 3,600-square-foot McMansion he rents at 6304 Tone Dr. -- you'd attract quite a crowd.

"Section 59-C-1.31" is the zoning code provision you'd be violating by having said parties in an R-60 zone if the guests pay to get in, as they do (or used to) at Pickthorne's nocturnal get-togethers. His events draw dozens of people. The cost: $20 for a basic ticket, $50 for VIP treatment..............

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