Wasn't part of the revolution the belief that there had to be a victim for there to be a crime?
Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister
Courier-Post staff CAMDEN
The state appellate court has upheld the conviction of a Cherry Hill couple who pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution, admitting they operated a sadomasochistic dungeon in a home.
Dorina Pizio, 53, and Martin Hunsinger, 57, formerly of the 1100 block of West Valleybrook Road in Cherry Hill, pleaded guilty to a third-degree charge of promoting prostitution in October 2000.
They were each sentenced to two years probation. They admitted they charged fees in exchange for providing sadism, masochism, bondage, domination and submission, cross-dressing and infantilism services to patrons who derived sexual pleasure from the activities.
Under the plea agreement, the defendants preserved their right to appeal the constitutionality of the state's Promoting Prostitution statute. In their appeal, they asked the court to find the statute unconstitutionally vague and too broad as it applied to their case, arguing that the statute "does not clearly prohibit the sadomasohistic acts - performed."
The Appellate Division rejected the defendants' claim. "As long as the sadomasochism is performed for sexual pleasure, then it is criminalized under the promoting-prostitution statute, when exchanged for money," the court wrote.