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Owner of Club Amnesty in Orange gives tour of facility and promises to re-open in 2009.

ORANGE -Gary Nalder gave a short answer to the question of why he chose to convert a photography studio in Orange to an underground swingers club.

“Sex sells,” he said with a smile.

Nalder obtained a Sexually-Orientated Business License from the city in 2004 indicating he planned to run a nude and semi-nude photography studio at 1548 N. Brian St. Instead, the photography studio turned into Club Amnesty, which held weekly sex parties for couples for more than three years.

City officials recently cited the New Zealand native for operating without a proper business license and violating numerous city and fire code violations. Nalder, speaking outside the building, said he planned to shut the club down.

“They want us to get a conditional use license or permit, which means that it has to go through the council, through a committee, through police and fire, the city attorney’s office, planning and business license,” Nalder, who declined to be photographed, said. “I think it’s going to be impossible.”

City Attorney David DeBerry said the club would only need a conditional use permit to allow patrons to bring in alcohol.

“If you are going to have alcohol, whether it’s brought in by patrons or you sell it, you need an alcohol license. All alcohol licenses, in turn, require a conditional use permit from the city,” DeBerry said. “If he chooses not to allow alcohol into the facility anymore, then he just has to comply with the regulations we have in the code.”

A guided tour

With the understanding there would be no photographs; Nalder gave a tour of the club, beginning in the foyer where several bags of clean, white towels rested. The main room was a bar area, with a dance floor, pole and silhouette screen. In a small room off to the side was a billiards room. A narrow hallway led to a locker room area, complete with showers. “I built this all myself,” said Nalder, who lives in Fullerton and owns a plumbing business. Down the hallway were the different-themed playrooms, some rooms had one or two beds, others had several. The art on the walls were more sexually-themed the further down the hall. “I’ve been to many swing clubs,” Nalder said. “So I took a little bit of everything and put it all together.” Nalder pointed out a wall he took down to comply with the fire code. In the Gothic Room, he pointed out an empty spot where a cross in the shape of a capital "X," with wrist and ankle restraints used to be. “If we have restraints, we have to be an institution,” Nalder said. The final room, the Group Room, was painted black and had a loft with a bed on top and a bed inside. The main feature was the set of six full-sized beds pushed together, with three beds raised over the other in a multi-deck. “People came here to have sex,” Nalder said. Also present were signs reminding patrons that closed curtains surrounding the beds were the same as closed doors. “Sure, people are going to break the rules a little bit, but not really,” Nalder said. “We really haven’t had any incidents, no fighting, no nothing.”

A stressful time

Though he was sad the club was closing, Nalder said he was also a bit relieved. “It’s been stressful for the last three years. Just putting on parties every Saturday was just stressful,” he said. “It takes a lot of time and a lot of work. When you’re dealing with 5,000 members, they’ve all got a question, you know?” Nalder said he planned to relocate the club elsewhere in 2009 to protect his membership. “People in this lifestyle want to be kept secret. They don’t want their neighbors to know what they’re doing because people have a negative connotation about it,” Nalder said. ”They think it’s bad. But what’s bad about it?” Even though his name is in the news and his face was on the television, Nalder said he didn’t think finding a new location would be a problem. “News is great for the first day, but after that, it’s not news anymore,” Nalder said. “People forget. News is only temporary.”

A north Devon farmer has caused a stir among villagers by diversifying into hosting a swingers' club.

Roger Stanbury said the premises in Horswell near Bishops Tawton were providing a "harmless" service.

But some villagers say the club, promising "sexy fun", is the wrong type of entertainment for a rural area.

The venue was originally a barn which was converted into a weddings venue by Mr Stanbury in 2001 using money from South West Tourism, said Mr Stanbury.

One neighbour, Sheila Moorcroft, 62, said: "I don't think it's fitting. I think it's pretty sleazy."

Divorced dairy farmer Mr Stanbury, 54, said he decided to diversify in 1996 following the BSE crisis.

First he set up a holiday park and in 2001 converted a barn on the site into a weddings and functions venue.

Last year he attracted some adverse publicity when he introduced a once-a-month strip night at the venue, called Club Vanilla.

On 26 April he is planning a once-a-month swingers club.

The club's website says it offers "a sophisticated club environment designed for sexy fun" with "erotic areas, a jacuzzi, dance floor and an "exotic floor show".

Mr Stanbury told BBC News: "We put on a few strip shows and it went down very well.

"I wouldn't have put on a swingers club unless I knew there were a lot of people who wanted this type of thing.

"It's not illegal. It's not sleazy. It's a club for mature couples who want to meet other people who want the same thing and have an enjoyable night out."

He added: "No-one is going to be harmed. Most people are broad-minded enough round here to find it quite amusing."

Colin Petty, who also lives nearby, said: "As long as it's confined and doesn't go over the top, then it's ok.

"I'm not a prude, but if this affects the way I live, then I will be doing something about it."

Malcolm Bell, chief executive of South West Tourism, said it supported any legal enterprise.

He said: "As long as it is legal then technically there is no problem.

"It's a sign of the times, but we always encourage people to get the maximum amount of local support for a new venture."

A North Devon Council spokesman said: "There are no restrictions on the licence which say they can't have adult entertainment."

CIRCULATING PETITION FOR MOTTO 'IN GOD WE TRUST'

By Bill Estep

BESTEP@HERALD-LEADER.COM

An anti-pornography group based in Louisville has renewed its effort to create an "In God We Trust" license plate in Kentucky.

Reclaim Our Culture Kentuckiana (ROCK) started an online drive this week to gather names on a petition supporting its application for a state specialty plate with the motto.

ROCK said in its application that it would use the money from sales of the plate to raise awareness about harm caused by pornography and the sex industry and to help people hurt or victimized by porn, sexual predators and the sex business, such as women who want to quit stripping and children targeted by online molesters.

ROCK operates a program called Stepping Out Ministries to help women trying to leave the sex business, as well as their children, but hasn't had enough money to fully meet the need, said MaryAnn Gramig, research and policy coordinator for ROCK.

"The sooner the commonwealth approves this," Gramig said of the group's application, "the sooner funding becomes available to reach some of the most vulnerable and hurting citizens."

If approved, the plate would cost $34, but buyers could volunteer to add $10 that would go to ROCK, said David Devers, a spokesman for the Transportation Cabinet.

The group could get a significant amount of money.

Indiana has sold more than 1.6 million "In God We Trust" plates since January 2007. The Hoosier State has a larger population and does not charge extra for the plate, but it's not hard to imagine many Kentucky drivers would want a license plate with a religious message, and that a good number would donate to ROCK.

Nearly 400 people signed the online petition in the first 48 hours, Gramig said.

Interest in creating an "In God We Trust" plate here mirrors a trend. Several other states have approved such plates.

ROCK's proposal for an "In God We Trust" plate, if approved, would not amount to an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion because it would be a specialty plate and the donation would be voluntary, said Michael Aldridge, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky.

"It's really a free speech issue," he said.

ROCK's application has some hurdles to cross after a failed effort by state lawmakers to approve an "In God We Trust" plate in the session that ended this month.

That effort created some controversy.

ROCK applied to the Transportation Cabinet to sponsor a specialty plate before state Rep. Jim Gooch, D-Providence, filed a bill to create a plate with same motto, and the two essentially were in competition.

If Gooch's bill had passed, the money would have gone to veterans' programs.

But the Transportation Cabinet did not decide whether to approve ROCK's plate request. Instead, an official told the group the cabinet would defer to the legislative proposal.

The House passed the bill 98-0, but did not get a vote in the full Senate.

Now, ROCK wants its application approved.

It's not clear, however, whether the group needs to submit a new application if the earlier one is still good, said Chuck Wolfe, a spokesman for the cabinet.

The competing proposals for an "In God We Trust" plate created a situation the cabinet hadn't faced before.

Transportation Secretary Joe Prather has asked officials in the agency to research the issue, including whether ROCK should submit a new application.

ROCK thinks its application is still good, Gramig said.

By Guy Basnett

We've got the breast… sorry, best shots of the most beautiful celebs giving you a cheeky eyeful after suffering a wardrobe malfunction.

And we're sure you'll agree, there's no shame when these girls make a boob of themselves.

Click here for more sexy pics of celebrity wardrobe malfunctions

Our uplifting snaps show just how perilous life can be for a glamorous girl busting to be seen in front of the cameras.

No stranger to baring all, no-one should have been surprised when busty pin-up Jordan, 29, made an unexpected appearance at her book signing.

Promoting her new work: ‘Pushed To The Limit' she did exactly that to her low-cut red and white dress.

Pop princess Lily Allen, 22, ironically grabbed some headlines for her New Look clothing and accessories range-when she forgot to dress properly.

A bit too relaxed, the ‘Smile' singer let a little too much hang out of her blue top.

Fans of the gorgeous Nadine Coyle, 22, got a surprise when she coyly exposed her nipple while arriving at G.A.Y in London's Astoria.

Fellow pop group member Sarah Harding, 26, gave us a sneaky peek of her left breast when she blew a kiss to fans on Oxford Street.

Paris Hilton, 27, seemed to be doing everything right when she paired up with her upmarket mum Kathy Hilton for a posh lunch in swanky Beverley Hills.

But it was another twosome that stole the limelight when Paris accidentally leaned forward too far.

And she lost her top completely when she took a dip in the sea.

Another posh lady demurely giving us a treat was double-barrelled Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, 36, with her arrival at The Opera House in Holland Park.

And the gorgeous Nell McAndrew, 34, showed why she's everyone's favourite pin-up when she slipped ever-so-slightly out of a figure-hugging gold corset.

Big Brother star and former lap dancer Charlie Uchea, 22, had no room for subtlety as she showed off how upfront she could be at London's Embassy Club.

And former model Sophie Anderton, 30, revealed her true colours as she arrived with barely a stitch of clothing at the Mayfair Club.

Glamour girl Alicia Duvall popped out of her bra while strolling down the street. Her strapless black dress clearly couldn't keep up with the active socialite.

Even Amy Winehouse, 24, showed her bad behaviour can extend to her dress sense, as she clumsily flopped out of a car in a dirty beige loose-strapped top.

It's all a far cry from demure Posh Spice Victoria Beckham, 33. Posing for an shoot outside The Louvre in France, David Beckham's squeeze looked a masterpiece behind the thinnest of beige tops.

Lost actress Bai Ling, 36, inadvertently popped out of her dress while attending the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California.

LONDON -- The scandal probably would have been a ho-hum tale of sex and bondage of little interest to jaded Europeans were it not for two things. The man holding the whip was one of the most powerful men in motor racing. And when he ordered his "prisoners" to submit, he was speaking in a practiced German that called up disturbing images of a distant past.

The man was Max Mosley, president of the international body that governs Formula One racing -- and the son of Oswald Mosley, the controversial founder in the 1930s of the pro-Nazi British Union of Fascists.

Mosley's five-hour encounter with five women in a bondage orgy has prompted accusations of Nazi role-playing and engulfed the Formula One world in a leadership crisis, prompting the sport's ruling body Wednesday to announce that its governing assembly would meet June 3 to decide whether Mosley can keep his post.

The controversy heated up even further when a judge in Britain allowed Rupert Murdoch's News of the World to air on its website a videotape excerpt of the encounter between Mosley and the women. The racing chief says the session was a consensual adult gathering and the airing of the tape an invasion of his privacy.

The newspaper also published an interview with a woman who said she was one of several prostitutes hired by Mosley to pose as prisoners and Nazi guards.

The website's traffic immediately jumped, by 600%, as did the troubles of the 67-year-old Mosley. He now faces calls from Formula One drivers, manufacturers and automobile associations to resign as president of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, world motor sports' governing body.

Mosley's parents were interned during World War II because of their support for the Nazi regime in Germany. His mother was the former Diana Mitford Guinness, one of the celebrated Mitford society sisters. She and Oswald Mosley were married in 1936 in the Berlin home of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, and Diana Mosley claimed until her death to have been "very, very fond" of Adolf Hitler.

Max Mosley had his own run-ins during his youth in defense of his father. But he has long sought to shed his past and to pursue both a law career and his long-standing love affair with motor sports, becoming one of the most powerful figures in Formula One.

He has admitted having a sex session with the women but says it had nothing to do with Nazism. He said he speaks German in parts of the video because one of his sex partners was German.

The guard uniforms, he said, were not Nazi apparel but featured a modern German air force jacket, while the women were wearing not concentration camp uniforms but U.S. prison garb.

"It goes without saying that the so-called Nazi element is pure fabrication. This will become crystal-clear when the matter comes to trial," Mosley said after filing suit against News of the World, alleging invasion of privacy.

"I don't think any of this should affect my work on motoring safety, the environment or the sport," he said. "I believe that 21st century adults do not worry about private sexual matters as long as they are legal and harmless."

But News of the World and its lawyers said Wednesday that many questions remained about Mosley's account.

"Why are German military uniforms worn? Why does he issue orders and threats in German to women who cannot speak German? . . . Why are the victims of these beatings in German made to put on sinister striped uniforms?" Tom Crone, News Group Newspapers' legal manager, said in a statement. "Why the head lice inspections, the forced shaving of body hair and the sinister references to inmates being housed in 'facilities'?"

The newspaper itself was even more hard-hitting in its leading article Sunday.

"Formula One boss Max Mosley is a grotesque sexual deviant who acts out Nazi death-camp fetishes," it proclaimed. "His feeble, bleating assertion that his sex acts are 'harmless' flies in the face of the evidence. . . . We absolutely refute and challenge his assertion that we have invented any elements of his depravity."

Mosley apparently learned German when his parents sent him to study for two years in Bavaria at the age of 13.

In one portion of the video, which the court said was made when one of the women "was able to conceal a camera in such clothing as she was wearing," Mosley counts in German, according to a transcript also posted: "Maybe a few more beatings. . . . Eins! Zwei! Drei! Vier! Funf! Sechs!" he says as he spanks one of the women with a strap.

Later, he speaks English with a German-like accent. "Zey need more of ze punishment, I think," he says.

Mosley had asked a court to order the News of the World to continue its voluntary removal of the video from its website after its original publication March 30. But Justice David Eady declined, saying it was too late to protect his privacy -- the material was already too widely available on the Internet.

"The dam has effectively burst," the judge said. "I have, with some reluctance, come to the conclusion that although this material is intrusive and demeaning, and despite the fact that there is no legitimate public interest in its further publication, the granting of an order . . . at the present juncture would merely be a futile gesture."

At the same time, the judge made it clear that Mosley might hope to prevail in his lawsuit. If the edited video is considered proof that Mosley intended a Nazi scenario, he said, "it certainly is very weak."

After the ruling, Mosley's lawyers said their client intended to "vigorously pursue" damages against News of the World, the proceeds of which he would donate to the FIA Foundation.

Meanwhile, Mosley faces a flood of demands for his resignation as FIA president. The Automobile Assn. of America, a member of the FIA, called the incident "distressing and embarrassing."

"While this matter may be viewed as private by some, the damage to the image of FIA and its constituents is clearly public," the organization said in a statement. "AAA has conveyed to Mr. Mosley that it would be in the best interest of all concerned if he were to step down."

By John Walsh
Sunday, 6 April 2008

When the News of the World revealed that Max Mosley, the president of Formula 1 and son of the fascist poseur Oswald, had been videotaped in a basement enjoying sadomasochistic sex with five prostitutes dressed in Nazi death-camp uniforms, it had no hesitation in calling the activity an orgy.

It seems a far cry from the original meaning of the word orgia: secret worship. Shouting commands in German while helping one lady of the night whip another is hardly the same as attending a night-time prayer meeting to worship Dionysus or Orpheus. Sex wasn't supposed to come into it. But these things get out of hand so easily. Since the worship of Dionysus involved music, dancing, drinking and eating animal sacrifices, it was inevitable that some group rumpia-pumpia would ensue.

The Romans weren't noted for their restraint in god worship, particularly of Saturn, lord of death, and Bacchus, god of wine. As Christianity took hold, the no-holds-barred Saturnalia and Bacchanalia festivals were spoken of with disapproval; and the Latin orgia came to mean something depraved. But then, imperial orgies really were depraved. Tiberius Caesar, according to Suetonius, was a connoisseur: "teams of wantons of both sexes, selected as experts in deviant intercourse and dubbed analists, copulated before him in triple unions to excite his flagging passions."

The word "orgy" passed into English in 1589, and evidence exists that the English were no slouches at group sex. Dancing round a Maypole wasn't always mere skipping-with-ribbons. It was ritual phallus-worship, after which the dancers would head for the open meadows. "What clipping, what culling, what kissing and bussing, what smooching and slobbering one of another," remarked the 16th-century Puritan Philip Stubbes, from his vantage point behind a bush.

After the Restoration, things calmed down. The orgy became the toy of the aristocracy. In England, its apogee was the rise of the Hellfire Club, founded by Sir Francis Dashwood, an MP for 20 years and a full-time rake. He leased Medmenham Abbey on the Thames. In the garden stood a statue of a naked Venus, bending over so that visitors walked straight into her bottom. He built a network of caves and passages under a hill, with individual "cells" where the friars could wench. The friars hired London "dollymops" and ferried them down the Thames on barges.

In France, the Marquis de Sade inherited the beautiful Château La Coste, overlooking the Vaucluse valley. Possibly bored by the lovely view, he and his wife signed up young male servants and pretty girls and subjected them to violent sex, cruelty and coprophagy, as depicted in The 120 Days of Sodom.

In the 20th century, orgiasts were disappointingly few and far between. The Bloomsbury group famously "lived in squares and loved in triangles", but drew the line at actual group sex. Aleister Crowley, the writer and self-publicist, tried to revive the spirit of Dashwood by presiding over black masses, worshipping Pan and taking the motto, "Do what thou wilt is the whole of the law". He moved to Sicily and headed a community of orgy enthusiasts.

Hippy culture introduced the concept of free love to an uptight American world in 1967. The counter-culture promoted a version of sexual democracy that saw the staff of Suck magazine having sex during editorial meetings.

Then The Joy of Sex was published. Readers stared at its "Orgy" section, the line drawings of naked, bearded accountants and indefatigably middle-class women fondling each other – and decided that, Dionysus or no Dionysus, they were sure as hell never going to do that.

And suddenly, after 2000-odd years, the orgy (or'gy, noun: "A revel involving unrestrained indulgence, especially sexual activity") just didn't seem like a great idea any more.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/orgies-a-brief-history-of-group-hankypanky-805133.html

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