Police have busted a naked policeman found tied up on stage in a BDSM sex club, charging him with public indecency – apparently on the grounds that the club was not a properly lisensed brothel.
The incident occurred in Sapporo when a 28-year-old head warden at a local police station paid a visit to a BDSM club named “Club Patio,” situated in the centre of town.
He took to the stage, took off his clothes, and was bound in place with a red rope by a female member of staff, when police suddenly raided the premises.
The officer was subsequently taken into custody at 1:25AM on charges of public indecency.
He admits the charges, saying “there was no doubt that I was naked at the time,” although at the time of his arrest he was apparently not forthcoming about the fact he was a police officer as well.
Police say there were “about 15” male and female patrons at the establishment watching his on-stage antics when they arrested him.
Police explained their own presence at the club by saying that they were investigating the club for providing sexual services when they only had a late-night restaurant license (brothels and sex clubs normally have to pay to “register” with police if they wish to remain unmolested).
The rather lurid details of the incident and the pathetic way in which Japanese police shake down brothels by “licensing” them has provoked much comment online:
“I can’t believe this made the national news!”
“If he is M then he is only going to enjoy being arrested.”
“Ruining his dignity as a policeman is the ultimate reward for this guy.”
“He wasn’t actually naked though – he was tied up.”
“That’s what the place is for. Let them be already.”
“Wouldn’t they normally cover up his name in the reporting?”
“He probably wanted it this way.”
“How is nudity in a private SM club ‘public indecency’ in any case?”
“If this is illegal public indecency then every bathhouse in the country is illegal.”
“I wish they’d leave these people to their harmless fetishes…”
“Don’t they have anything better to investigate? They should overlook this sort of thing, it’s completely harmless.”
“If the patrons were in an establishment they believed to be a sex club, how can you arrest them for being naked?”
“Arresting patrons for being in a joint which was improperly licensed is low. How would they know what kind of license it ought to have?”
“No victims arise from customers paying to engage in consensual sex play. If they are adults and consent, the authorities should not be interfering whether it is gay sex or BDSM sex or whatever…”
“They have really been abusing the definition of public indecency lately, haven’t they?”
“How do they call being naked in a room indoors in a private club an act of gross public indecency…”
“You can’t even get naked at an SM club. Being a pervert sure is harsh.”
“Arresting people for being naked at an SM club is kind of crooked thinking.”
“So this would have been legal if the club was properly licensed as a sex club!?”
“There was really no need to release his name for something like this. There are so many other dodgy coppers whose names they never release, after all.”
“What’ll his family think of him now…”
“For a true masochist all this is probably heaven.”
“When I see news like this, I am reminded why I am glad to be S and not M.”
That “cop” was probably a plant. If they gave his name, it probably wasn’t his real name.
This is what happens when you don’t pay your bribes on time or when you boss falls out of favor with the local “powers that be” for whatever reason.
Japan’s police is so bored… Having not better thing to do.
Japanese police just blatantly idiot
Off duty cope charged with public indecency inside a building.
Does this make any kinda sense? Much less be any sort of thing besides headlining news?
Being bound up and taken away in police escort, M! But hid that he was a cop so it would make the news and therefore dirt the police, so he’s an S!