BDSM MEDIA NEWS!!!!
13 may 2011
School teacher who led double life as dominatrix free to work with children
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk - The Daily Mail - UK
UK - MILTON KEYNES - A primary school teacher who led a secret double life as a kinky dominatrix has escaped being struck off.
Faith-Anne Lesbirel advertised her services on the internet on a website called '
Informed Consent'.
She specialised in bondage, domination, sadism and masochism (BDSM) and 'messy play' often involving 'gunge'.
Using the name Mistress Saffron she boasted about being cheaper than other 'Pro Dommes' - slang for a professional dominatrix.
Lesbirel ran her kinky bondage sessions as a sideline while she worked at Simpson Primary School in Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, in 2008.
She was found guilty of unacceptable professional misconduct for 'advertising sexual services on the worldwide web' by a disciplinary hearing of the General Teaching Council (GTC).
She was told her activities 'fell short of the standard expected of a teacher'.
Chairman Professor Muriel Robinson told her: 'You promoted services of a sexual nature via a publicly accessible web site that you instigated and you maintained a profile on the "Informed Consent" website, where you say in your written submission you also offered your services as a dominatrix.
'Anyone could have gained access to these websites.'
Lesbirel, who attended the hearing in Birmingham on Tuesday, was slapped with a reprimand which will stay on her record for two years.
She told the hearing she ran the website and admitted charging clients to engage in dominatrix fantasies.
She said: 'I would research the best quality and best value equipment and a price for the equipment and/or clothing would be agreed by phone and the money would be left in the room when we met.
'I would also charge a fee for my time when the scenarios took a lot of effort to prepare.'
Lesbirel said her role as a dominatrix offered customers 'an experience' but bizarrely claimed it was 'non-sexual'.
She told the hearing: 'If someone is engaged in activity with you using gunge and gaining pleasure it is not sexual for you but may be for them.'
Several parents and teachers complained to the headteacher after they discovered Lesbirel's kinky sideline.
The panel said they took particular note of her headmistress at the time who had told them that pupils in Years Five and Six were asking if Lesbirel was a prostitute.
Prof Robinson told her: 'It is clear that the reputation and public standing of the profession was placed at risk by your choosing to initiate and run such a website and indeed the exposure of this did in the event damage the school and the profession.
'Public trust and confidence was affected.'
But the panel refused to strike Lesbirel off the teaching register, saying her 'fetish activities does not make you a danger to children'.
Lesbirel has 28 days to appeal the decision.
