{"id":13017,"date":"2011-05-11T16:36:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T20:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13017"},"modified":"2011-05-11T16:36:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T20:36:34","slug":"the-place-of-the-dominatrix-in-the-primary-school-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-place-of-the-dominatrix-in-the-primary-school-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"The place of the dominatrix in the primary school classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is quite secure in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1385953\/Primary-school-teacher-led-double-life-kinky-sex-dominatrix-free-continue-working-children.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A primary school teacher who led a secret double life as a kinky dominatrix has escaped being struck off.<\/p>\n<p>Faith-Anne Lesbirel advertised her services on the internet on a website called &#8216;Informed Consent&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She specialised in bondage, domination, sadism and masochism (BDSM) and &#8216;messy play&#8217; often involving &#8216;gunge&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Using the name Mistress Saffron she boasted about being cheaper than other &#8216;Pro Dommes&#8217; &#8211; slang for a professional dominatrix.<\/p>\n<p>Lesbirel ran her kinky bondage sessions as a sideline while she worked at Simpson Primary School in Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>She was found guilty of unacceptable professional misconduct for &#8216;advertising sexual services on the worldwide web&#8217; by a disciplinary hearing of the General Teaching Council (GTC).<\/p>\n<p>She was told her activities &#8216;fell short of the standard expected of a teacher&#8217;\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>But the panel refused to strike Lesbirel off the teaching register, saying her &#8216;fetish activities does not make you a danger to children&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although \u00a0<a href=\"..\/homosexuality\/us-general-against-repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell\/#comment-7304\">some people<\/a> are cheerfully at peace with the prospect of a dominatrix teaching their little darlings, I can\u2019t help wondering whether what a person <em>is <\/em> in one context influences what she <em>does <\/em>in another \u2013 teaching, in this case. \u00a0I\u2019m sure the average &#8216;gunge&#8217; and &#8216;messy play&#8217; \u2013 whatever they are (no, I don\u2019t want to know) &#8211; loving dominatrix obeys the law most of the time, but that alone does not make her a suitable role model \u2013 like it or not, that\u2019s what teachers are \u2013 for children.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s probably only a matter of time before BDSM is taught to five year-olds as a harmless lifestyle choice, at which point this would be moot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is quite secure in the UK. From here: A primary school teacher who led a secret double life as a kinky dominatrix has escaped being struck off. Faith-Anne Lesbirel advertised her services on the internet on a website called &#8216;Informed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-place-of-the-dominatrix-in-the-primary-school-classroom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[469,688,2261],"class_list":["post-13017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-bdsm","tag-dominatrix","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}