April 8, 2008--No Sex Please, We're British
Though the sun may have long ago set on the British Empire, when it comes to public sex scandals, no one does it better than the Brits.
Yes, we have our occasional Senator Larry Craig who is no longer best known for his fierce opposition to same-sex marriage but for tapping his feet in Gay Code in men’s rooms all over America or Tom Foley who had a thing for young Congressional pages or Governor Eliot Spitzer who as Client Number Nine was fortunate to have come from a wealthy New York real estate family so he could afford to be an Emperor’s Club VIP.
By comparison to the British--boring. When they step out, they do it in a really big way.
Case in point—Max Mosley, president of the governing body of grand prix motor racing, the Federation Internationale de l’Autombile. Last week a video showed up of him participating (if that’s the right word) in a sadomasochistic orgy with five prostitutes in a London sex dungeon.
I know you are skeptical so please be sure to read the entire NY Times article linked below. Written by John Burns who was for years the Times bureau chief in Iraq. In other words, a sober and reliable reporter.
By British standards this might not even have made the front pages in the racy and competitive world of tabloids. They, after all, had more Princess Diana “news” to report. What made the Mosley affair all the more titillating was its link to the Nazis.
Not just that in the scenes shown in the video had Nazi themes—two of the women wore striped prisoners uniforms while Max was heard to bark, “Eins! Zwei! Drei! Vier! Funf!” (one, two, three, four, five) as he whipped another of the women. “She needs more of ze punishment,” he cried out in cartoon-like accented English.
Not only was he seen lying bound and naked on a bench while one of the women pretended to search for lice in his hair and the other lashed him more than 20 times.
No big deal by British sex scandals. What really turned this into a big story was the fact that Mosley’s father back in the 1930s, Sir. Oswald Mosley, was the British leader of England’s Nazi-sympathizing Blackshirts. His dad, who was married to a Mitford, the beautiful and fascistic Diana in Berlin in 1936 in a secret ceremony at the home of Joseph Goebbels with Hitler himself there as the guest of honor, dear-old dad clearly inspired and fired his son’s imagination. And this Nazi connection is what got the British public’s juices really flowing. (Though the video images themselves, if you like that sort of stuff, are quite . . . how shall I put this?)
And as if competing for the chutzpah of the year award, while attempting to wiggle out of this compromising situation, Max Mosley, who has been married to the same woman for 48 years, claimed that whatever he did was a private matter and that he should thus not have to leave his position with the F.I.A. In fact, he reminds us, some of the organization’s chief sponsors, BMW and Daimler Benz used slave labor during the Nazi era to build touring cars for Hitler and his henchmen while also supplying the German army and Luftwaffe with fighter planes, bombers, and tanks. Talk about hypocrisy, he opined.
Meanwhile we also learn that Mosley paid the six women the equivalent of $5,000 in cash for the five, yes five, hour session! Compared to what Eliot Spitzer shelled out to one working girl for one hour Mosley got quite a bargain. But then again, the British Pound is very strong these days.
Yes, we have our occasional Senator Larry Craig who is no longer best known for his fierce opposition to same-sex marriage but for tapping his feet in Gay Code in men’s rooms all over America or Tom Foley who had a thing for young Congressional pages or Governor Eliot Spitzer who as Client Number Nine was fortunate to have come from a wealthy New York real estate family so he could afford to be an Emperor’s Club VIP.
By comparison to the British--boring. When they step out, they do it in a really big way.
Case in point—Max Mosley, president of the governing body of grand prix motor racing, the Federation Internationale de l’Autombile. Last week a video showed up of him participating (if that’s the right word) in a sadomasochistic orgy with five prostitutes in a London sex dungeon.
I know you are skeptical so please be sure to read the entire NY Times article linked below. Written by John Burns who was for years the Times bureau chief in Iraq. In other words, a sober and reliable reporter.
By British standards this might not even have made the front pages in the racy and competitive world of tabloids. They, after all, had more Princess Diana “news” to report. What made the Mosley affair all the more titillating was its link to the Nazis.
Not just that in the scenes shown in the video had Nazi themes—two of the women wore striped prisoners uniforms while Max was heard to bark, “Eins! Zwei! Drei! Vier! Funf!” (one, two, three, four, five) as he whipped another of the women. “She needs more of ze punishment,” he cried out in cartoon-like accented English.
Not only was he seen lying bound and naked on a bench while one of the women pretended to search for lice in his hair and the other lashed him more than 20 times.
No big deal by British sex scandals. What really turned this into a big story was the fact that Mosley’s father back in the 1930s, Sir. Oswald Mosley, was the British leader of England’s Nazi-sympathizing Blackshirts. His dad, who was married to a Mitford, the beautiful and fascistic Diana in Berlin in 1936 in a secret ceremony at the home of Joseph Goebbels with Hitler himself there as the guest of honor, dear-old dad clearly inspired and fired his son’s imagination. And this Nazi connection is what got the British public’s juices really flowing. (Though the video images themselves, if you like that sort of stuff, are quite . . . how shall I put this?)
And as if competing for the chutzpah of the year award, while attempting to wiggle out of this compromising situation, Max Mosley, who has been married to the same woman for 48 years, claimed that whatever he did was a private matter and that he should thus not have to leave his position with the F.I.A. In fact, he reminds us, some of the organization’s chief sponsors, BMW and Daimler Benz used slave labor during the Nazi era to build touring cars for Hitler and his henchmen while also supplying the German army and Luftwaffe with fighter planes, bombers, and tanks. Talk about hypocrisy, he opined.
Meanwhile we also learn that Mosley paid the six women the equivalent of $5,000 in cash for the five, yes five, hour session! Compared to what Eliot Spitzer shelled out to one working girl for one hour Mosley got quite a bargain. But then again, the British Pound is very strong these days.
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