Trick Cyclist

I'm still here.. just been busy. I just hadn't had that much to write. But this story on the BBC website prompted me to express my concern.

On first read the "Man has sex with Bike" story raises a bit of a giggle. It's a "laugh at the weirdo" kind of story. Maybe you wonder if he now has an exclusion order banning him from branches of Halfords

But then you read it a little closer and it's very unsettling. But not at the sex act itself, but the circumstances that lead to his prosecution and being placed on the sex offenders register.

This guy was in his hotel room. On his own. The bike is an inanimate object so there is no issue of consent. He wasn't doing this in a public place.

In essence, he was having a wank in a hotel room. In private. On his own.

The Maid then unlocked the door using a key, saw him in mid-act and complained. And for that he ended up on the sex offenders register. I think this is all rather extreme.

If she had walked in on a woman using a vibrator, would she have complained? If the man had been using a sex doll would she had complained? And here's the tranny angle - what if he had been dressed in stockings and suspenders?

I don't remember there being any actual law about being an offense to have sex with a bicycle. (although I do still wonder how he was actually doing it - did he take the saddle off?)

The more I think about this the more amazed I am that this case should have ever come to court. Surely maids in hotels are often accidentally coming into rooms and finding people have a quickie? I just find it hard to believe that someone can be placed on the sex offenders register for doing something on your own with an inanimate object with the door locked.

It's just crazy.