I started in journalism 21 years ago but never had a sex romp until Friday. The front page of the Kalgoorlie Miner read:
“A Kalgoorlie man who assaulted his girlfriend with a sex toy during a sex romp foursome was fined $1000 in Kalgoorlie Magistrate’s Court and urged to seek counselling.”
The bloke whacked his partner with a “rubber sex toy” about 30 times on the backside.
The defence produced references from the man’s mother and girlfriend. The girl tried to have the charges dropped, but the police didn’t allow it.
The serious underlying issue, of course, was domestic violence.
It wasn’t reported in the paper, but we heard later the photographic evidence showed extreme bruising.
We quoted a welfare official who said sexual violence is on the rise. She attributed this to the easy availability of sexually explicit material on the internet.
I don’t think I would have put “Sex romp assault” as the front page headline on some other papers where I have worked, and I wouldn’t do it in Mount Gambier … at least not until I know the mood of the readership.
In Kalgoorlie though, the reaction was pretty much what I expected. People were talking about the story on the street and everyone had a wry comment.
Another pun: I’ll be interested to see what the sex romp does for circulation.
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i live in kalgoorlie and i thought this was hillarious when i read it in the paper i dont know what kind of response they expected but hey you read it too
Whatever helps to get you through your day has to be a bonus.
Probably Mount Gambier is not ready for a sex romp, but I just know there would be loads of very interested people who would read this stuff. They may not admit it, but they would be dying to know exactly what people get up to, and they would be hanging off every printed word.
People are basically curious, extremely nosy, but would never openly admit to reading such an article.