Evening out
Hey it was just rough sex, rough open-air sex, don’t kink-shame.
A teenager who killed an underage schoolgirl after buying her drink and abandoning her at a city beauty spot on a winter’s night was jailed today.
Ewan Fulton bit Mhari O’Neill on her breast and throttled her before leaving her in an intoxicated state on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill where her body was found by a dog walker.
Kink-shaming. So he choked her, so he bit her on the breast – so what? She probably loved it! Or was too drunk to notice. It’s nobody else’s business what kinksters get up to in the privacy of their own – er, in the privacy of Calton Hill.
I’ve been to Calton Hill. I expect everyone who’s ever set foot in Edinburgh has. It’s this big lump in the middle of the city, from which you can get a great view. It’s not quite the same thing as a discreet hotel room, with heating and duvets and desk clerks who call the police if some guy tries to take a drunk 15-year-old to a room.
He knew it was freezing cold. He bought a large bottle of vodka before heading up the hill with her.
Mr Prentice said that pathologists had decided that on balance they considered that hypothermia, with intoxication, was the most probable mechanism of the Portobello High School pupil’s death.
Probably so. You pour half a large bottle of vodka down a 15-year-old’s throat and take most of her clothes off and choke her and then leave her there on a cold night, she’s likely to die of hypothermia.
Fulton, now aged 20, admitted killing Miss O’Neill, who died on December 7 or 8 in 2018, when he appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh today.
He took part in sexual activity with the schoolgirl and bit her breasts and compressed her neck and culpably and recklessly endangered her health and life and exposed her to risk of injury and death.
He provided her with alcohol which resulted in her becoming intoxicated and incapable of looking after herself.
Kink, though.
Yet the San Francisco Comical recently APPROVINGLY profiled in an obituary a leading BDSM kinkster with burbling praise for his “community”
Brian M, that may not be the paper. I think the family or “community” write the obits now. I know my brother wrote my mother’s when she died; someone in the family wrote my sister’s. So it may not be the newspaper writing approvingly of his ‘community’, but someone in his ‘community’.
ikn: You are probably right, of course. It was certainly a LENGTHY hagiography and your point would make sense.
Not every tendency or predilection or preference needs to be “celebrated” or publicly promoted. I don’t need to know that leading politician Mr. Gray enjoys being whipped with a cilice. (Even if for religious reasons!) And no, I do not say consensual “play” by adults should be a police matter, but neither should it be vocally promoted as a good thing. The concept of “polite society” is still a valid one.
It sounds like this kid either made a grievous mistake or was a young predator; what is manifestly absent is his participation in the BDSM community, which could have guided his desires in a safer and more consensual direction. In my experience, that is largely what the BDSM community *is*. While I was a participant, essentially every single social gathering was dominated by conversations about how to have interesting experiences safely, how to communicate effectively, and how to respect other people’s boundaries and how to effectively set one’s own. These frank, open conversations were undeniably polite, but the subject matter was scandalous, and would never have been a part of “polite society”.
It wasn’t perfect, of course, but it was a much more comprehensive education about sex and sexuality than most people (including, evidently, the perpetrator of this story) ever receive. And the alternative, *not* having these conversations, doesn’t mean that people will stop having these desires; it simply means that when they decide to indulge them, they’ll do so with less information, less guidance, and less cumulative experience establishing certain norms and expectations.
That’s…not actually a better world, all things considered.
“Fulton had originally faced a string of further charges allegedly committed before and after Miss O’Neill’s death which included assaults and sexual assaults on other young women.
They included claims of seizing and compressing the alleged victims’ throats and necks and biting. On one occasion he was said to have licked blood. His pleas of not guilty to those charges were accepted.”
So we have a predator with a pattern of violence towards multiple women, and yet he was allowed to plead not guilty. He will be out of jail before he is 30 and free to attack more women. Disgusting
And…the general ‘woke’ community will pile in against any suggestion that alcohol is a dangerous drug. That 15 year olds being incapacitated by older men are ‘just having harmless fun.’ That mentioning alcohol is somehow ‘victim blaming.’
Note the last bullet point from this quote from David Lisak’s ‘Understanding the Predatory Nature of Sexual Violence.’
https://web.archive.org/web/20180918030047/http://www.davidlisak.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/SARUnderstandingPredatoryNatureSexualViolence.pdf