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February 03, 2015
In Canada, Being a Dominatrix Is a Mental Illness
Source: Sex.com. - Sex.com - USA
CANADA - In British Columbia, Canada, a supreme court judge has ruled that being a dominatrix is technically a mental illness.
The year was 2008. Alissa Alfonina, then about to enter 12th grade, was a passenger, with her mother and brother, in a car driven by the mom’s boyfriend Peter Jansson when his Toyota ended up in a ditch by the side of Highway 1 in British Columbia.
According to testimony at trial, Alissa’s teacher Phil Byrne had said that the girl was a “very bright student, in the top two per cent of her media-arts high school class who dreamt of being a filmmaker or actress,” according to
Keith Fraser, of Postmedia News.
Five years later, Alissa Alfonia started working as a dominatrix. Considering her new career of whipping people for a living, the judge believes that she must have suffered a “moderate brain injury” in the car accident. What other reason besides brain damage could someone have for becoming a dominatrix?
In
his opinion, Justice Groves recounted Byrne’s testimony that after the accident, “[Alissa] showed signs of no impulse control, could not carry through and tasks were not done. Instructions had to be repeated to her. Things had to be read over and over.
She became socially isolated and began to have outbursts in class. She made sexual comments during these outbursts that were inappropriate for the class setting. Mr. Byrne was of the view that she did not appear to filter her thoughts and acted as if she was unaware of her social environment He described her memory as scattered and inconsistent. He described her follow-through as limited, as matters would have to be explained to her repeatedly, and she would then forget the instructions within 20 minutes.
Her energy level was notably different. Before the accident he described her as a young livewire, while post-accident, she was often sleepy and put her head down in class. He gave numerous examples of instances where her lack of social appropriateness required counsellors to intervene. Her talk was unfiltered, random, and as he described, not logical for the school social environment, or ‘out of left field’.
“Lawyers for Afonina argued that her decision to begin working as a dominatrix at some point prior to her trial last year showed a lack of ‘correct thinking’ and was proof she’d taken an unnecessary risk due to a loss of cognitive function from a moderate traumatic brain injury,” Fraser continued, while Jansson’s attorney argued that the fact that she maintained an occupation as a dominatrix showed that she “could organize herself to maintain a modest level of employment income.”
Ummmm…ok. Do we really need to chalk up a change of attitude after a near-death experience as mental illness? Even if you don’t factor in the car crash, Alissa Alfonia sounds like a regular teen that’s dabbled in existential philosophy and literature? Does owning a copy of La Nausée and a couple of Cure tapes qualify as a mental illness too?
“I believe that both the plaintiff and defendant can show that fact of Alissa’s work as a dominatrix supports the finding of some facts which support their ultimate view of the manifestations of the brain injuries as suffered by Alissa in the accident,” Groves wrote in his opinion, adding that “Afonina had not acted to minimize her risks by implementing an alarm system or safety measures in her work as a dominatrix, evidence of a diminished judgment on her part and a factor supporting a theory of frontal lobe damage.”
And since in a civil suit, the verdict goes to the party that makes the best case through a “preponderance of the evidence”-unlike a criminal trial, where a person’s guilt must be established “beyond a reasonable doubt”-Groves decided that the mere fact that Alfonina chose to work as a dom was evidence of brain injury.
The good news is, Alissa Alfonia was awarded 1.5 million dollars (Canadian dollars).
However, her big payday comes at the expensive of the Canada’s kink community as they now have a precedent set that becoming a dominatrix very well might be an indicator of brain injury.
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