PECULIAR PASSIONS
Sex doll gives birth and other mad love stories
STEPHANIE SAYS
US Army veteran Terry Wayne East is ‘married’ to a life-sized doll named Stephanie, whose social media pages show her treating Terry to home-cooked meals at their North Dakota home. Other photos depict Terry accepting holiday gifts from her, or show her passed out on the floor after a night’s drinking.
An account of how they had met appears on Stephanie’s Facebook page: “I met Terry W East online and two weeks later I was out of tyranny away from my homeland China and in his arms on my way to becoming an American.” Stephanie features over-sized breasts on a small, childlike frame, and recently ‘gave birth’ to a baby doll.
Comments on Stephanie’s social media page suggest that Terry East is a “wounded veteran that came back not right in the head”, taking Stephanie as his ‘wife’. “His family and friends were even a part of it,”, said one poster. “His mom was there for the ‘birth’ of the baby.” The poster also claimed that Stephanie was eventually displaced in favour of a real woman, who had agreed to marry Terry, but who had recently died. Since
then, Stephanie’s Facebook page appears to have gone quiet and attempts to confirm or deny the allegations remain unanswered. popularmilitary. com, 17 Mar 2020.
LINCOLNSHIRE SEX HUT
An urban explorer, whose YouTube channel features videos in which he looks around abandoned places, discovered a ‘sex hut’ in woods between Market Rasen and Caistor, Lincolnshire. Mannequins adorned with paint and children’s toys were strewn nearby, some leaning against trees, and several
mannequins’ lower-halves were piled up in a corner of the hut. The hut itself was lined with red cloth and had a small round entrance. A discarded leaflet found in the hut that featured cartoon woodland animals referred to a “giant vagina” and the “jizz pit”. In his video, explorer Steve Gray (Ste G on YouTube) is visibly shocked by the hut, calling it a “messed up place” and exclaiming “This is the womb, we are inside the womb!” The hut and its immediate surroundings appear to have been the venue for a 2018 rave. “This was a
rave made by transsexuals”, said a comment on Ste G’s channel. “I attended this event and it was an awesome weekend really messed up but so funny. shame they didn’t clean up the sight [sic] after”. grimsbytelegraph.co.uk, 14 May 2020.
MS LIBERTY LIGHTS UP
The UK press regulator, Ipso, has ruled against Leeds woman Amanda Liberty, who had complained about an article in tabloid newspaper the Sun, mocking her public declaration of love for a 92-year-old German chandelier.
Ms Liberty, in her mid-30s, argued that the Sun article breached the regulator’s code of conduct requiring newspapers to avoid prejudicial or pejorative references to an individual’s sexuality. She also queried the article’s accuracy, as it claimed she was married to the chandelier. In fact, as she pointed out, although she was in a long-term relationship with Lumiere (the name she has given to the intricate light fitting she purchased on eBay) they were not yet married.
Ms Liberty identifies as an ‘objectum sexual’ (an individual attracted to objects) and had objected to being nominated for Sun columnist Jane Moore’s end-ofyear ‘Dagenham Award (Two Stops Past Barking)’ prize.
Sun lawyers successfully argued that, while not doubting the sincerity of Ms Liberty’s attraction to chandeliers, sexual orientation in the context of the press regulation code only covered those people attracted to the same sex, the opposite sex, or both. They also pointed out that Ms Liberty had in the past talked extensively to the media about her attraction towards chandeliers and other objects. Some time ago, she had changed her surname to Liberty to reflect her then relationship with New York’s Statue of Liberty. For more obscure objects of desire, see FT240:22-23, 357:8-9, 388:8.