Male student 'used Facebook to blackmail boys for sex'

Font size:February 05, 2009 01:45pmArticle from: Reuters

A STUDENT posed as a girl on Facebook to trick male classmates into sending naked photos of themselves before blackmailing some for sex acts.

Anthony Stancl even filmed some of the revolting encounters on his mobile phone, prosecutors say. 

The "really sinister" case has emerged as Facebook celebrates its fifth birthday - and as rival networking site MySpace reveals it has kicked off thousands of sex offenders. 

"The kind of manipulation that occurred here is really sinister in my estimation," Waukesha County District Attorney Brad Schimel said in the United States. 

The students go to New Berlin Eisenhower High School in New Berlin, which is in Waukesha County about 15 miles west of Milwaukee. 

Stancl, of New Berlin, was charged yesterday with five counts of child enticement, two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child, two counts of third-degree sexual assault, possession of child pornography, repeated sexual assault of the same child, and making a bomb threat. 

The incidents happened from spring 2007 through to November, when officers questioned Stancl about a bomb threat he allegedly sent to teachers and wrote about on a school's bathroom wall. It resulted in the closing of New Berlin Eisenhower Middle and High School. 

According to the criminal complaint, Stancl first contacted the students through the social networking site Facebook, pretending to be a girl named Kayla or Emily. 

The boys reported they were tricked into sending nude photos or videos of themselves, the complaint said. 

Thirty-one victims were identified and interviewed and more than half said the girl with whom they were communicating tried to get them to meet with a male friend to let him perform sex acts on them. 

They were told that if they didn't, she would send the nude photos or movies to their friends and post them on the Internet, according to the complaint. Stancl used the excuse to get the victims to perform repeated acts, the complaint said. 

Seven boys were identified in the complaint by their initials as either having to allegedly perform sex acts on Stancl or Stancl on them in the high school bathroom, parking lots, neighborhoods under construction, the public library restroom, parks and at some of the victims' homes. 

The complaint said Stancl took photos with his cell phone of the encounters. 

Officers found about 300 nude images of juvenile males on his computer, according to the complaint. The victims ranged in age from 15 to 17 or 18 years of age at the time of the assaults, the complaint said. 

"We know from experience how damaging sexual abuse on children can be," Schimel said. 

"We are particularly concerned in this case because of the sheer number of kids that are all in one school." 

Schimel said one victim came forward before the bomb threat, but authorities would have likely found Stancl anyway due to the threat. 

Stancl's attorney, Craig Kuhary, said Stancl plans to initially plead not guilty to the charges. 

"It's too early in the case for me to make a statement, other than the fact at some point we are going to go into events that had taken place earlier that might have had some impact on what he did here," he said. He wouldn't go into specifics. 

Kuhary said he hoped that at some point they could reach a plea agreement with the district attorney. Schimel said he was open to talking to Kuhary. 

Kuhary said Stancl has been expelled from school. 

A preliminary hearing for Stancl has been scheduled February 26. 

The maximum penalty if convicted on all charges is nearly 300 years in prison. 

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Three women abduct, rape man in Karachi

3 Feb 2009, 0130 hrs IST, AGENCIES
KARACHI: Karachi police have registered a case against three unidentified women who allegedly abducted a man and raped him over four consecutive
days, and later throwing him near Qayyumabad River in an unconscious state.

The victim identified as Khalil, 23, works as a waiter at a restaurant. Khalil revealed that, on the night of January 27, an identified man ordered him to deliver food to the women sitting in a car outside the restaurant.

“After giving me the order, the man went towards the car. I took the order to the car where the women told me that they had recently shifted to the area,” the Daily Times quoted him as saying. The women then asked him to deliver food to their house every day. “They asked me to go along with them in the car to see me where their house was,” he added. Once they got to the house, “they gave me milk that had some drug in it ... I fell unconscious after drinking it”.

As he regained consciousness, Khalil found that the women “were forcing themselves onto me”. According to assistant superintendent of police Asad Raza, the women sexually assaulted Khalil for four days, and then threw him near Qayyumabad river. “His condition is really bad ... his genitals are bleeding and he cannot walk properly,” said Raza.

Raza said the women belonged to rich families of Karachi’s Clifton area. “It’s a complicated case ... but we are hoping that we will solve it soon,” he added.

Meanwhile, in another bizarre case in Karachi, the Crime Investigation Department (CID) police on Monday arrested four robbers, including a police constable, on charges of looting passengers and seized weapons, motorcycle and car from their possession.

SSP CID Police Chaudhry Aslam said incidents of robbing passengers returning home from foreign countries were on the rise. The CID, after receiving a tip-off, asked a car and two bikes’ riders to stop. However, they opened fire at the cops, who retaliated.

All four people riding the car, were arrested. One of the four accused, Khalid Amir, is a police constable, serving at Shara-e-Faisal Police Station.




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When Males kiss...

 

        Jim Carrey               Ewan McGregor

JIM CARREY battled doubts before taking on a role as a homosexual convict in I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS in case he discovered he enjoyed kissing men.
In the film, inspired by true events, Carrey stars as jailed con artist Steven Jay Russell who falls in love with his cellmate, Phillip Morris, played by Ewan MCGregor.
The two actors locked lips for the comedy drama, prompting the funnyman to wonder what effect it would have on him and his relationship with Jenny MCCarthy if he found himself enjoying it.
Carrey jokes, "I did find myself wondering what will people think? And what if I like it? And how will that affect me? And Jenny?"
But his co-star MCGregor didn't hesitate to go all the way, adding: "It wasn't awkward. You're not playing a gay or a straight character. You're playing someone who's in love... As an actor you're always looking for interesting stories. I've played gay characters so I've kissed men before.
"It's about getting on with it. And it all felt strangely usual." 

Gay-straight divide 'an absurdity,' Queer as Folk star says

Scott McKeen, Freelance

HAL SPARKS

Where: Comic Strip in West Edmonton Mall

When: Today, Thursday and Sunday at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10:30 p.m.

Tickets: $34.95. Call 483-5999 or go to www.thecomicstrip.ca

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EDMONTON - Hal Sparks is not queer. Nor is he just folk.

For a comic, his observations about life can be downright serious. Until, that is, he pulls some wicked line out of thin air, just to let you know why he packs comedy clubs.

Sparks, who played the first gay married man on series television, Michael on the hit Queer as Folk, started as a stand-up comic at age 15 in Chicago. From there, he went on to the Second City troupe and eventually graduated to acting, like many of his contemporaries in stand-up comedy.

"I think they are two totally different art forms with overlapping skill sets," says Sparks. "That being said, a lot of us screw it up and are terrible actors."

He's done spots on a range of TV shows, from CSI to Celebrity Paranormal Project. He was Zoltan in the movie Dude Where's My Car? and does regular voice work on the cartoon Tak and the Power of Juju.

One of his first acting gigs was in the, uh, overlooked movie Chopper Chix in Zombietown. Not that he's embarrassed by his feature film debut. After all, the movie also starred a young Billy Bob Thornton.

"We shot that movie on the edge of Death Valley," he says. "If that doesn't speak to your career path at that point, I don't know what does."

Still, he survived to be eventually cast in the trailblazing Queer as Folk. Did he worry about playing a gay man?

"I'm really not one of those guys who makes gay jokes," says Sparks. "Because I don't think those jokes are about homosexuality.

"I think they're about the feminine. Men have difficulty dealing with the feminine. Dealing with anything that is receptive or passive scares them. And the idea that a dude would be receptive or passive scares the crap out of them."

Sparks says playing the part gave him new insight into the ridiculous segregation between straight and gay men.

"It left me feeling like I was standing on a bridge looking at two warring parties and going: 'You know you're both insane, right?'

"Gay people are born the way they are. They no more make that choice than you and I make a choice to be straight. It's no big deal. It's not even important enough to argue over. It's an absurdity."

One popular theory about homophobia is that it's rooted in male insecurity caused by our culture's absence of a ritual rite of passage into manhood. Sparks doesn't buy it.

"I think those rites of passage often create a cartoon-like view of manhood," he says. "They usually involve drinking alcohol and killing a rabbit or a boar. Genuine manhood, I think, is a process you arrive at over the course of your life."

At this point in his life, he's on the road and making a stop this week at Edmonton's Comic Strip. What can we expect?

"Ultimately I feel as a comic it's my responsibility to have a good set," he says. "To some comics, it's a bad crowd, therefore its a bad show, end of story.

"To me, that's like a plumber who comes in to fix your leaky pipes and says: 'These are too leaky for me.'

"I'm a plumber, I should shut up and fix the pipes. Comedy is the same thing. I don't care how tough the audience is, it's my responsibility to make them laugh."

After all, he's had tougher audiences. Like on set, when he was shooting nude sex scenes on Queer as Folk in front of directors, producers and the crew.

"Those are like simulating sex with a cousin on the Thanksgiving dinner table in front of your whole family," said Sparks. "You're not going to be comfortable. Well, unless you're from Arkansas and that's your thing."

© The Edmonton Journal 2008

Published: Wednesday, August 06 2008

Stags not allowed! Delhi men have a hard time getting into pubs and clubs unless they're accompanied by women or foreigners. This was our experience over the past few weeks as we explored the nightlife of the city.
Now that the 'Let's catch a drink after work' culture is picking up pace, nightclubs are trying to outdo each other with special nights and packages. These include expat nights and ladies nights, which have become the talk of town. What has not changed, however, is the reluctance of many clubs to let unaccompanied men in.

Going solo
HT City photo coordinator Zabeeh Afaque found he wasn't allowed in at most watering holes for a drink. Afaque was part of the HT City team that went to investigate a problem men in this city are familiar with - most clubs and pubs in the city have a 'no entry' for single men.
We checked out 18 nightspots in the NCR and found at least five that discriminated by letting in single expat men but denied entry to Indian stags.
The city is throbbing with 'nights' that are hosted at places like Urban Pind, Ivy and Kuki.
Urban Pind and Kuki both have popular expat nights on Thursdays with the following special offers Urban Pind: Thirst-day nights have an unlimited IMFL drinks offer at Rs 550 (plus taxes) and Kuki has free drinks through the evening for all expat women and the fIrst 50 Indian women who enter.

Strict policy
Kashif Farooq, co-owner, Urban Pind, the Urban Bar, while talking about the strict couple-only policy says, "These days stags take entry one by one and then form a big
group inside. We think that's unsafe for the women who are new to the country. Honestly, foreigners understand each other better and know how to talk to or approach women. Rules are for everyone. We've often been told to soften our stand on entry but we'd rather lose business than risk an unpleasant event."
Rummy Sharma of Kuki however feels that these nights pull in the crowds on a dull day and the special tag ups the excitement level. But
he's quite clear about who's most important

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Straight men have huge egos

One of the strongest ways in which men are heteosexualised is by giving them an extremely strong and enormous ego. Consequently, Straight men have HUGE egos.
What is this ego really? An ego can be roughly translated as a false, negative pride, a haughtiness.
This False ego passes off for natural manhood in men. However unlike men whose pride is built on natural manhood, this ego is hollow and hence all those powerful men appear extremely hollow if you peep within. Women have been complaining this for generations. But they hardly realise that they've been an instrument in this as well.
Unfortunately, the enormous social recognistion that makes this ego is given only once when proves that he has fought with and mutilated his inner self, his real, natural manhood -- especially his need for another man.
And therefore, straight men have such trouble accepting their sexual need for another man, to own such feelings, because this huge ego stands between them and their own feelings.
And this is why straight men take forever to come to terms with themselves when they unwittingly get into a relationship with another man. They have to struggle a lot to and they could never take any initiatives or acknowledge their love or interest in the guy they love dearly. Because, the huge wall of ego prevents their feelings from coming out in the open.
If the relationship is ever acknowledged, even if only in the privacy with the man they've been having sex with for several days, they'd break the relationship most cruelly, however involved they maybe... because they'd rather prefer death than acknowledge their sexual interest in another man. Their intense feeling for their lover may be very high during this time, but not higher than the enormous wall of ego.
Of course Ego is not the only factor, but one of the important factors that comes in the way of straight men and their sexual need for men.
The Ego makes men haughty, unapproachable and stiff as steel when faced with a situation where their sexual need for men is invoked even in the slightest manner -- which means that they have to be this way often, since unless they do that, the feelings can always come out and overpower them.
The forces of heterosexualisation that are in power have thus bought the souls of men, by giving them fake but enormous ego that they are afraid of breaking. So they do as the forces of heterosexualisation want them to do.

the hypocrisy of 'gays'

When you look at all this scare that the heterosexual society has created around the term 'gay' that it has developed in the first place, then you find it so strange and hypocritic of the self-identified gays (who are basically feminine gendered guys to various degrees, including straight-acting -- i.e. those who mask their effeminacy by acting masculine, but it doesn't really work), to claim that 'gay' only means what it is defined as, i.e., a man who is attracted to another man, and there's no other meeaning attached by the society to it. That, especially, there's no gender aspect associated with it.
They seem to sincerely believe in this "gay = sexual interest in men' definition, because it suits them and papers up their femininity under a misleading 'sexual' identity. They seek to remove the 'effeminate' reality by not acknowledging it as a part of the definition of 'gay' and treating the effeminacy of gays as just incidental (taking resort to the few misguided straight guys into the gay community, and the straight-acting ones to show that 'gay' doesn't really mean 'effeminate').
The gays have gone to the extent of changing history and historical spaces of who today comprise of the 'gay' space -- such as catamites, berdaches, etc. by removing the effeminate part from these definitions, or in any case highlighting them as ancient 'sexual' identities, rather than 'gender' identities that they were.
If you look at the 'gay' or 'homosexual' articles on wikipedia, that is written by gays themselves, you will find hardly any reference to the connotations that it means effeminate or feminine gendered. This is social engineering on their part.
However, this papering can only be done in their own small LGBT space. What's happening in the wider society, that affects billions and trillions of men, and a similar number of boys, adolescents and young males (who are the most severely affected) is totally different.

The scare of 'gay'

They're creating a lifestyle, a scare that anything except exclusive, constant and active 'heterosexuality' is gay, not only that, this gay straight, divide is not only limited to sexuality, but also in all social and personal spheres of men (the only exception is culture and family settings, because culture is still strong, and forces of heterosxualisation can't beat it yet), so that you can't only become 'gay' (and thus third sex), by having sex with a guy, but also by being too friends with a guy, by not having a girl in your group, by having men groom you (like barbars, etc.) and in all other social spheres. This gives their society not only an immense handle/ mechanism to control the sexual behaviour of men, but also their social behaviour, their attitudes, etc. that have little to do with sexuality, so deeply, that it could never have gotten if it had not created this scare.
You can judge the enormity of this scare by the fact that the youth, whcih is still insecure about his manhood is threatened to make sure that he is not seen too much with men, he doesn't go to a movie with only a male-friend, that he doesn't seem as physically close with a male friend (even things like holding hands), and they're very scared to form close bonds with men, lest they're thought of as 'gay'.
In the highly heterosexualised West, the gay scare has penetrated so deeply into men's spaces, that men as a group and as individulas have become extremely weak, with fewer and fewer rights and personal freedom, just like the bonobos. The effect of this scare has been that today, in the west, there's no such thing as men's spaces (unless you count the third sex, non-man, half-male, half-female, gay space as men's spaces), and no such thing as 'men' as a group or as a community or as a distinct class of people. The identity of a man has become totally dependant on women, so much so that he is nothing on his own, without a woman.

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People will discard incorrect labels.

Labels are meant to easily and correctly define themselves. If they fail to be fair and correct in their definition and their use, they may have power, because favoured by those in control, however, people will just not take those labels, even if it means giving up their own qualities. And this is what is happening when most men (straight men) rather disown their sexual need for men, than accept the 'gay' label, which is incorect and unfair.

The only people who use the 'gay' label are those who fit in the misdefinitions and incorrect usage.

Today men have no leeway to say 'no' to a woman

Now-a-days (in heterosexual societies), if a girl approaches you, you have very little lee way to say no. And if you say no, without giving an acceptable answer, that can save your 'heterosesxual' image, like by 'proving' that you're already involved... then she will immediately think, you're 'gay'. And girls have a lot of power -- they're the one to provide manhood to men and to make or break a man. So, if a girl says it, men really take it to heart. I mean there's no way you can counter a woman who calls you 'gay'. Now the word has social validity. In the past, you would have been perfectly valid to hit the woman if she said such a thing. But, women have too much power today, for you to do that. You cannot call her a whore, because what she's doing is held perfectly normal by the heterosexual society. In any case, whores are really valued by the heterosexual society, and they won't attach a negative name to it, just like 'homo' is really valued in the men's spaces.

So what can a man do in such a case. Because, if a woman calls him 'gay' although women think that manhood is a superficial thing, it can ruin his life. He will be treated like an outcaste in the men's spaces and will lose all respect and dignity.

So, men either give in to the sexual demands of women, and this is sexual abuse... not only by the women, who may not even know that they are abusing those men, because, the men have to make them believe that they like what they're doing, but also by the society, which forces men to not only to submit to sexual abuse, but also to grin and bear it --- just like they were made to grin and bear being circumsised or being engraved in blood, while being fully conscious.

But, those who are adept at it, try to get away from it, without losing their straight status by weaving enormous webs around themselves... they may not refuse the girls, and pretend to be going around with them, but try to delay the sexual part as far as possible... by weaving innumerable webs... by shifting from one girl to another... endlessly, by making endless stories. This is very oppressive for men, not only becasue it builds such extreme stress, but also because, they have to give to it a big chunk of their time, in the prime of their life, when they could have done so much with it, to fulfill their true potentialities. And also oppressive because, in all the webs that they build, they get lost themselves, they cut off themselves with their own natural selves, their own true manhood and also from those who they really need in life, and who can give them the love and companionship they really, truly desire.

Ego is not manhood

The extreme ego that a heterosexual image, however fake, gives men, is the thing that passes off for their manhood/ masculinity. It makes them look really masculine, even when their real natural masculinity is suppressed.

Boys keep talking about man to man sexual feelings negatively

There's no space for men to talk about man to man sexual feelings in any real or healthy or positive way, in the mainstream heterosexualised men's spaces. The only space they have to talk about it is negatively. And when boys are dealing with their intense same-sex needs, when it comes popping up, and they need to crush it time and again, and they need to talk about it when these feelings bother them, then they can only do it negatively. And so, they keep talking about it negatively. Its always on their mind.

Like this college freind of mine, who I know has an intense sexual need for men... He is always making fun of 'gay', always talking about it in a funny manner, "like saying, "haw, are you gay that you are sitting so close?" or "Look at those gays" when he sees two men holding hands. Its damn funny at that time. But, it takes away whatever little space is left in the heterosexualised spaces. This guy does this too much.

Also, this guy is a bit soft. I think he would fit in gay very much... But the other guy who is masculine and I know has an intense interest in men, and hardly any in women, but nevertheless tries to prove it all the time, he does't like to talk about 'gay' at all, and in fact gets pissed off with the other guy doing it too much. However, when he needs to talk about it (negatively of course), then he is really mean, hostile and threatening. Then it looks like he really means harm, and that he believes in what he is saying. He probably does. Inspite of his own feelings, which he will never acknolwedge, unless he somehow gets the courage and develops his natural mahoood.

Men must be trained, not to talk about 'gay' at all, since they can't talk positively about it. Till the time that we can find a way of finding a space to talk about man to man sexual need without forcing the gay label on it, within the straight/ men's spaces.

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Right to love a man without being labelled gay

Men would get their right the day people say about a man falling in love iwht another man and not and ot a 'gay' man fell in love with another gay man, or two male pair instead of a 'gay' pair,

Heterosexual brand of masculinity is fake

Heteroseuxal brand of masculinity is only skin deep, just a sham... it involves only taking the 'looks' of the real macho man, but not his essence -- how could they, when heterosexuality is so contrary to masculinity. E.g. these heterosexual men may look big and muscled from all that gym work, but they lack courage, the will to fight and especially inner fights. To top it all, they lack real character. But they were not meant to be that way. It is their heterosexualisation that has made them like this.

Pressure to be heterosexual, and not just to exaggerate an interest in having sex with women

Pressure to exaggerate sexual need for men is taken to the extreme in a heterosexual society, and now it does not remain a pressure to exaggerate need for sex, but to pretend a need for social and emotional bonding with women, which is completely unnatural for men.

Afterall, men have been resenting marriage eversince the institution was built ages ago.

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