Sex with Picnic Table part of a Trend?

The incident is the latest in a spate of bizarre sex crimes involving inanimate objects.

Sex with Picnic Table

ref http://people.monstersandcritics.com/bizarre/news/article_1397513.php/Ohio_man_arrested_had_sex_with_picnic_table

An Ohio man was charged with four counts of public indecency after he admitted to having sex with his patio picnic table.

Authorities in Huron County, Ohio say 40-year-old Art Price Junior confessed to repeatedly having sex with the table between January and March of this year.

NBC affiliate KALB in Alexandria, Louisiana report that Police in Bellevue, Ohio were tipped off after someone anonymously taped one of the incidents then gave the recording to police.( Now it comes out that the tipster reportedly provided 3 DVDs to the police, showing the table-desecration as it happened.

Admits Guilt

Price fully admitted to police that he had sex with the picnic table both inside and outside his home.

He was freed on a $20,000 bond.

Charges dropped

As the story is still being reported on the internet,(including a photo of the man) Huron County drops the Felony indecency charges against man accused of lewd behavior with picnic table. However other charges may be filed, Huron County Prosecutor Russell Leffler said.

Art Price, Jr., 40, was arrested March 20 after officials at a school near his home complained that he was engaging in lewd behavior with a picnic table on the deck - and submitted video evidence. He was charged with four felony counts of public indecency. But Mr. Leffler said the evidence didn't support felony charges, and his office would re-examine the case.

Some comments on the story included:

1.How do you have sex with a picnic table ?

2. I don't think this against the law in San Francisco.

3.He stuck his pee pee in the hole where the umbrella goes.
That's the only logical way. But...there is nothing on the other side.
or inside. It's a hole in a table. How can you possibly have a good time like that?

4. If he stuck his junk in the umbrella hole, maybe his dog was waiting on the other side. Otherwise it's like the previous comment, there's nothing on the other side. With a dog, he would get a lick without seeing it, then use his imagination... Aauuaaggg! This is whack!


The story in some publications linked to a story from last year where a man was arrested for having Sex with a bicycle.

Sex with a bicycles

Robert Stewart has been placed on the sex offenders’ register after being caught trying to have sex with a bicycle.

Stewart was discovered in his room by two cleaners at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr, south west Scotland, in October last year.

Admits Guilt

Mr Stewart admitted to sexual breach of the peace in Ayr Sheriff Court, where depute fiscal Gail Davidson described how he had been found by the hostel workers.

She said: "They knocked on the door several times and there was no reply.

"They used a master key to unlock the door and they then observed the accused wearing only a white T-shirt, naked from the waist down.

"The accused was holding the bike and moving his hips back and forth as if to simulate sex."

Both witnesses, who were extremely shocked, notified the hotel manager, who in turn alerted the police.

Mr Stewart was placed on the sex offenders’ register.

More sex with bicycles

That story links to an unnamed man in Sweeden who was arrested for sexually satisfying himself on the seats of women’s bicycles. (Ref: http://www.thelocal.se/10178/20080229/ and http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2008/03/an-overwhelming.html)

The 36-year-old man was charged for sexual molestation and damages after police found traces of his semen on the saddle of a woman's bike, according to the Östersunds-Posten newspaper.

The man was first reported in the spring of 2006 when police found sperm during an investigation involving a slashed bicycle tire.

The breakthrough in the case came after a woman reported seeing the man carry away her bicycle and then start rubbing up against it.

The man was arrested last July and taken into custody.

Sex with a bicycles

The 36-year-old man has confessed to the crimes, explaining that he felt an overwhelming calm wash over him when he approached women’s bicycles and smelled the handlebars.

These reports brought attention to another story of being discovered in the act of bizarre sex involving inanimate objects.

Sex with Vacuum cleaner (Ref:http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article868092.ece)

A Polish worker was caught in the act with a vacuum cleaner.The building contractor claimed he was cleaning his underpants with Henry Hoover when he was found naked and on his knees in a hospital's staff canteen.

A stunned security guard stumbled onto the man in the middle of a compromising act with the cleaner, which has a large smiley face painted on its front and a hose protruding from its "nose".

According to the Sun, the contractor was supposed to be locking up the building site near the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital where his firm is refurbishing administration offices.

The security guard, suitably horrified, told the man to "clean himself and the hoover" before asking him to leave and informing his bosses.

His excuse

When later questioned by his employers, the man said he was vacuuming his underpants, which was "a common practice in Poland". He has since been fired.

The man's employers, HG Construction, told The Sun: "That behaviour is not acceptable, though it gave a few people a laugh".

Henry Hoover is described on a cleaning website as "famous for its looks, but under its fascia lies a powerful, reliable vacuum cleaner ready to go time and time again."

Another admits to Vacuum Sex

Comic Russell Brand, 32, has also admitted to a session with a vacuum when he was 14.

He said: “I saw Henry sat there, he was looking at me. Now whenever I hear that name, I have a guilty little smile.”

Links to Man Arrested For 'Having Sex With Lamp-Post'
Saturday, March 15 2008 (ref: http://spankwagon.net/index.php?topic=wtf)

A 32-year-old man has been arrested in Wiltshire for allegedly simulating a sex act with a lamp-post.

A police spokesman said officers were called to a road in the town of Westbury on February 16 after they received a report of a man acting indecently outside a block of flats "occupied by several young women".

When they arrived they arrested him on suspicion of outraging public decency. The man was released on bail, but following an investigation into the incident and several interviews with witnesses - including children - he was recalled for questioning. He has since been re-released pending further inquiries.

The Wiltshire police spokesman said: "We are awaiting a decision as to whether there should be a prosecution".

Which links us to two stories about Sex with the Pavement

In 1993, Karl Watkins, an electrician, was jailed for having sex with pavements in Redditch, Worcs.


Another who had sex with the Pavement was Steven Marshall. Marshall a TEENAGER who tried to have sex with the PAVEMENT in a busy street claimed yesterday it was a drunken prank — and escaped being put on the sex offenders’ list.

Motorists looked on in shock as Steven Marshall, 18, hauled down his trousers and started to simulate sex on the floor.

Marshall — drinking while taking pills for arthritis — also carried out a vile sex act in front of a horrified female taxi driver in Galashiels, Selkirkshire.

He admitted a charge of public indecency at Selkirk Sheriff Court and got 12 months probation.

Sheriff Drummond commented: “This was bizarre. Anyone who lies on the road in the daylight, is significantly intoxicated and is partially undressed has a problem.”

But Marshall will NOT be put on the sex offenders’ register after Sheriff Drummond accepted the June offence “was not primarily sexually motivated”.

This linked to a story about Sex with automobiles:(Ref: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1127072wong1.html)

Canadian man sanctioned for lewd public acts with cars

A Canadian man with a bizarre sexual fetish involving classic cars was sentenced last week for several acts of public indecency.

Sandy Wong, 45, was arrested three separate times earlier this year for masturbating on the hoods of autos, including a Mini Cooper and a $50,000 BMW sedan, which was on display at an auto show.

sexually aroused by a certain type of car

During an interview with a court-appointed psychiatrist, Wong explained that he is sexually aroused "by a certain type of car...like a '67 Camaro, '55 Chevy Bel Air." He added that he was particularly attracted to a vehicle's "roof top...it's curved like a woman's body, the sex appeal, it felt good."

car owners should not purchase such enticing vehicles

In his report to the Edmonton Provincial Court, an excerpt of which you'll find below, Dr. Curtis Woods noted that Wong "irrationally opined" that car owners should not purchase such enticing vehicles since they tempt him to "pleasure myself."

cognitive defects with a under functioning thyroid gland

According to cops, Wong mounted the Mini Cooper outside an Edmonton pizza place and proceeded to "tuck, rub and bounce his naked genitalia" on the car's hood. Woods noted that Wong has been described as mentally challenged and attributed his "cognitive defects" to being born with a under functioning thyroid gland.


Admits Guilt

As first reported by the Edmonton Journal, Wong pleaded guilty to an assortment of charges and was sentenced last Friday to two years probation and 90 days in jail (which he had previously served). Wong, whose rap sheet dates back to 1989, also acknowledged a sexual preoccupation with women's feet and motorcycles.

Sex with a Fence?

Daniel French, 24, made "sexual motions" towards metal railings in Leicester Square Gardens after being challenged by police in the early hours of Sunday morning, Westminster Magistrates' Court was told.

"He said words to the effect of: 'I'm going to have sex with that fence'," said Philip Lemoine, prosecuting.

Leicester Square is a hub for drunken revelers at weekends

"The gardens were locked and police asked French to leave. He was drunk and there were some sexual motions - drunken silliness - to the railings."

Mr Lemoine added: "French said he had a relative who was a solicitor and would teach the police a lesson."

French, of Verity Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, admitted being drunk and disorderly after a night out in the West End, but angrily denied making romantic overtures towards the fence.

Claims cops provoked

"That's not right at all about the fence. I was surrounded by three big police officers. I felt I was being bullied and wanted to go home. They were pushing me against the fence and trying to provoke me," he told magistrates on Monday.

"The suggestion that I was trying to do something sexual to the railings is disgusting."

French was sentenced to serve the time he had already spent in custody since his arrest - meaning he was allowed to walk free from court.

Fetishism

The term "fetishism" was coined in the late 1800s. It originates from the Portuguese word feitico, which means "obsessive fascination".

There is a degree of fetishistic arousal in most normal individuals who find particular bodily features attractive.

However, fetishistic arousal is generally considered a problem when it interferes with normal sexual or social functioning and where sexual arousal is impossible without the fetish object.

Fetishism is characterized as a disorder when there is a pathological assignment of sexual fixation, fantasies or behaviors toward an inanimate object.

Inanimate object fetishes can be categorized into two types: form fetishes and media fetishes. In a form fetish, the object and its shape are important, such as high-heeled shoes. In a media fetish, the material of the object is important, such as silk or leather.

Mostly male

Male fetishists may be unable to get erections without the presence of the objects. Nearly all fetishists are male, though some women also exhibit fetishism.

Causes

The cause of fetishistic behavior as a pattern of sexual gratification cannot be explained easily.

Some theorists believe that fetishism develops from early childhood experiences, in which an object was associated with a particularly powerful form of sexual arousal or gratification. Other learning theorists focus on later childhood and adolescence and the conditioning associated with masturbation activity. Studies show that fetishists have poorly develop social skills, are isolated in their lives and have a diminished capacity for establishing intimacy.

Profile

Behavioral learning models suggest that a child who is the victim or observer of inappropriate sexual behaviors learns to imitate and is later reinforced for the behavior. Compensation models suggest that these individuals are deprived of normal social sexual contacts and thus seek gratification through less socially acceptable means. In the far more common cases, involving males, the patterns suggest that causes stem from doubts about ones own masculinity, potency, and a fear of rejection and humiliation. By his fetishistic practices and the mastery over an inanimate object, the individual apparently safeguards himself and also compensates for some of his feelings of inadequacy.

Treatment

Almost always the treatment must be long-term if it is to be effective. Treatment approaches have included traditional psychoanalysis, hypnosis, cognitive and behavior therapy as well as pharmacotherapy. Some prescription medicines help to decrease the compulsive thinking associated with the paraphilias. This allows concentration on counseling without as strong a distraction from the paraphiliac urges.

Increasingly, the evidence suggests that combining drug therapy with cognitive behavior therapy can be effective, although research on the outcome of these therapies has been incomplete and often appear not to have been successful.

Drugs

More recently, a class of drugs called antiandrogens that drastically lower testosterone levels temporarily have been used in conjunction with these forms of treatment. The drug lowers the sex drive in males and reduces the frequency of sexually arousing mental imagery. Increasingly, the evidence suggests that combining drug therapy with cognitive behavior therapy can be effective.

The level of sex drive is not consistently related to the behavior of paraphiliacs and that high levels of circulating testosterone do not predispose a male to paraphilias. That said, hormones such as medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera) and cyproterone acetate help decrease the level of circulating testosterone thus reducing sex drive and aggression and resulting in reduction of frequency of erections, sexual fantasies and initiations of sexual behaviors including masturbation and intercourse.

Hormones are typically used in tandem with behavioral and cognitive treatments. Antidepressants such as fluoxetine (Prozac) have also successfully decreased the sex drive but have not effectively targeted sexual fantasies.

Assisted aversive conditioning

Research suggests that cognitive-behavioral models are effective in treating paraphiliacs: Aversive conditioning involves using negative stimuli to reduce or eliminate a behavior. Covert sensitization entails the patient relaxing, visualizing scenes of deviant behavior followed by a negative event such as getting his penis stuck in the zipper of his pants.

Assisted aversive conditioning is similar to covert sensitization except the negative event is made real most likely in the form of a foul odor pumped in the air by the therapist. The goal is for the patient to associate the deviant behavior with the foul odor and take measures to avoid the odor by avoiding said behavior.

Thought stopping

Thought stopping is another technique used to control fetishism. The therapist first determines the patient's other types of other attractions and fantasies. The therapist asks the patient to think about the fetish fantasy; once the fantasy is conjured, the therapist yells, "Stop!" At this point the patient immediately switches to the earlier agreed upon fantasies. This process is repeated several times in the presence of the therapist.

Sources: * National Institutes of Health* National Library of Medicine
* Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition
* PsychNet-UK

For further reading (humorous)

There is a web site http://www.unclemelon.com/consumer_inanimate.html

where Uncle Melon and his staff examined 12 inanimate objects for their potential use as sexual partners. The evaluation included ease and pleasure of use, availability, orgasm efficiency and post-ejac clean-up.