Friday, October 12, 2007

S&M death in Massachusetts raises legal questions


Adrian Exley traveled from Britain for a bondage session with a man he met on a S&M web site. He was wrapped tightly in heavy plastic, then bound with duct tape with a leather hood and plastic straw so that he could breath and then shut in a closet. Exley’s body was discoved in the woods last year after the suicide of Gary LeBlanc who was responsibility in the fatal bondage session. LeBlanc who was a 48 yo Gulf Oil sales executive left a five page suicide note with the details of the death.

You would think this is over, but its not. Now the question is since Exley consented to sex play can LeBlanc be held responsible for his death? Exley’s family is suing LeBlanc’s estate for unspecified damages claiming wrongful death.

Many bondage enthusiasts are watching the case closely, seeing it as lesson in where to draw the line of responsibility on consensual but dangerous sex.



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