All kinds, of course. And among his supporters are people like this enterprising local couple.
Regan "Draco" Lane-Smith and "Naughty" Nonah Elliston outfitted their six-bedroom rental house with 15 mattresses, bondage crosses and sex swings. They built elaborate sets in their backyard for taking erotic photos.
And they promoted the Hardwood Cabin online.
Up to 60 guests at a time came to mingle, sunbathe nude by the pool and have sex with fellow swingers and fetishists, Elliston said. Parties were frequent enough that the couple's laundry service was cycling through 50 bedsheets a week.
Enterprising, and public spirited.
The couple hosted a naked rally for presidential candidate Barack Obama and naked karaoke nights. A friend's "mobile sex dungeon" — created in a small cargo truck — was parked alongside the house.
The article doesn't say why they are backing Obama. Though, for what it is worth, John Kerry received strong support from the porn industry in 2004, even stronger than the support that Bush received from brain surgeons and rocket scientists.
Authorities in the Seattle suburb where they live, Des Moines, have now shut them down, claiming that they were running a business. They aren't fighting the ruling, but instead are looking for a commercial location.
Cross posted at Jim Miller on Politics.
(This reminds me, a bit, of the story from a few years ago. One precinct in Illinois contained many convicted sex offenders, because, as I recall, it contained a large half-way house, or perhaps several of them. The precinct gave strong support to Democrats.
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Posted by Jim Miller at August 14, 2008 01:26 PM | Email This