Beat me just once a week Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Sex, Kink and Ick

[Bill Bartlett]

This woman has consented to a weekly beating, yet the judge has 
demanded the husband cease the beating altogether. I wonder if those 
who insist that activities between consenting adults are no-one 
else's business are outraged by this?

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas

http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2004/09/22/1095651392999.html

Beat me just once a week

September 23 2004

An Iranian woman has taken her husband to court in a bid to secure a 
judicial order for him to beat her once once a week instead of every 
night, press reports said.

"My husband is violent and beats me virtually every evening. I 
thought that he would stop after the birth of our child, but in fact 
it has got worse," the woman, identified only as Maryam J, was quoted 
as saying in court by the Mardomsalari paper.

"I don't want a divorce or compensation. My husband is violent. It is 
in his nature. I just want him to promise to beat me only once a 
week," the woman argued, reportedly drawing laughter from the judge 
and gallery.

Summoned to explain himself, the husband confessed to beating up his 
wife "every evening".

"I hit her because a wife should be afraid of her husband, and this 
way I oblige her to respect me," said the man, who was not identified.

According to the paper, the judge has demanded that the husband give 
a written assurance that he will stop beating his wife altogether.