"It's been, erm, a quiet week in Lake Woebegon..."
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Posted on 11/19/2002, 7:04:32 PM by marshmallow
Steven H. Bailey says he is very good at something most would consider very bad.
By his own account, the St. Paul man has led thousands of men through a fantasy of torture as pleasure, a world where consenting adults participate in a risky sex game that could end in death.
Bailey talks easily about being in charge, the responsibility it brings and the euphoria of it all.
Everyone went home safe and sound, he says. Except for Maceo F. Brodnax.
And what Bailey refers to as "a terrible accident" at his North End apartment on Nov. 2, homicide investigators and prosecutors are calling a bizarre crime the likes of which they've only seen on television or read about.
"Last time I saw something like this was on a 'Law and Order' episode years ago," Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner says. "I never thought I would see it in St. Paul."
Brodnax's death during consensual sex presented a difficult decision for prosecutors, she said, but her office charged Bailey with second-degree manslaughter.
Last week, during an interview in the Ramsey County jail, Bailey talked publicly for the first time about his lifestyle, vaguely about the charges against him and what he believes is an attempt by authorities to turn the case into a circus and expose him as a freak.
NEWFOUND LIFESTYLE
An explicit videotape, some suggestive electronic mail and sex toys in his home have raised eyebrows in the Police Department's homicide unit, but the 54-year-old Bailey says they show that he is sexually adventurous, that he is a product of the 1960s and '70s counterculture.
Bailey prefers his family, some of whom now live in Shoreview, not be bothered. He believes the publicity surrounding the case has embarrassed them.
But he talks easily about his past, his place in a family with old money and active in the Twin Cities social scene. He grew up in a big, beautiful St. Anthony Park home, he says, and, as a boy, he frolicked with friends on the nearby University of Minnesota campus.
He attended St. Anthony Park Elementary School and Murray Junior-Senior High School, where he was bored by most subjects, except art. After high school it was clear Bailey wouldn't go to college, but he came close, moving into a commune near the U's West Bank campus in Minneapolis.
The timeline of his life is hard to track, "it was the '70s, you know," he says, rolling his eyes. But there are definite things he remembers. Ping-ponging between New York and Chicago. The modeling career. Designing women's accessories for Saks Fifth Avenue.
And the $11,000 coyote coat ("It was a gift") he was wearing the day he met a Chicago cabdriver who would change his life.
"I was introduced to it by a cabdriver when I was like 23. He was very, very hot. So we went over to his place and he asked me to tie him up. I thought it was strange at the time," Bailey says.
He was in charge, a tall, slim, effeminate man, his long hair pulled back, taking control of a beefy bodybuilder. Since then, he says, he has enjoyed the "master-slave" role playing involved in sadomasochism.
"What people don't understand is that fetishes can be as simple as a guy liking a woman's ankles and being into that, or somebody who likes to have certain parts of their body licked," Bailey says.
Experts, too, say sadomasochism includes a wide spectrum of activities enjoyed by both homosexual and heterosexual couples.
"There's a whole range of S&M activity, such as a mild slap on the tush to severe deprivation of a person's liberty, freedom, movement and ability to respond," says Simon Rosser, professor at the University of Minnesota's Program in Human Sexuality.
But a national organization serving the sadomasochism and leather-fetish community believes it's off the safety charts when people get involved in "erotic asphyxiation" or "breath control," where ligatures or chemicals are used to deprive oxygen to the brain, causing a euphoric sexual sensation.
"It's definitely extreme and I know some advocates who teach 'don't do it,' and I guess some groups (teach) how to do it safely, but I'm not familiar with such groups," said Susan Wright, spokeswoman for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom.
Bailey, who is unemployed, describes himself as part of the "old guard" when it comes to safe sex play, including using condoms and discussing his and his partners limitations: "I have been doing this a while and so I always err on the side of safety."
DEATH INVESTIGATED
Bailey says he found no shortage of men, or women, looking for someone like him who is seemingly willing to be in charge of fulfilling someone's fantasy, he said.
He found that to be particularly true as he moved onto the Internet, a place that pulled him out of the isolation he felt after returning to the Twin Cities 12 years ago. AIDS has ravaged his health, though he says he controls the disease with medication and has been careful not to infect others. He talks about being an old man, his blond hair now graying yet perfectly cropped.
With a computer in his one-bedroom apartment, he could reach a broad audience and establish himself in the online world as "The True Master."
He posted a profile on an Internet forum, telling interested readers he was looking for adult men to play out, among other things, fantasy strangulation by hanging or asphyxiation with the use of chloroform.
Many times, there was an exchange of photos, phone calls and an in-person meeting.
"I was flown several times to people's homes for my various talents … and because I'm a nice guy," he says.
Most came to his apartment, where his bedroom is equipped with a harness and accessories such as handcuffs and other bondage tools.
That, he says, was the case with 53-year-old Maceo Frank Brodnax, who flew from his Los Angeles home on Nov. 2 to spend the weekend with Bailey.
The men had met online two months before and, after discussing their mutual interest in erotic asphyxiation, decided to connect in person, Bailey said.
Early on the morning of Nov. 6, a neighbor spotted Bailey dragging Brodnax's decomposing body through his apartment building parking lot.
Bailey insists Brodnax's death, likely caused by asphyxiation from chloroform, was an accident, and that his only mistake was not calling police immediately.
An e-mail he reportedly wrote before Brodnax's death, however, has concerned investigators.
The note details his fascination with sexual violence, "especially if it ended in the slow, brutal death of one or more of the men involved." The posting invites men to contact Bailey for "brutal games."
Bailey says the e-mail has been taken out of context and is sheer fantasy.
"I'm into this (rough) stuff, but I don't kill people. That is not my world."
Gays are just like you and me. I bet Feinstein, Schumer, and Hillary would let this guy be a Boy Scout leader for THEIR children. Or is it always OUR children that are the guinea pigs for their social engineering?
While the cable networks push homosexuality as an "equal and alternate" lifestyle, our children are forced into close quarters with pedophile teachers, city leaders, and gay propaganda classes billed as "awareness". Predators now set up their chicken-hawk recruitment centers with goverment money and the Democrats blessing.
The sooner America realizes that pedophilia and deviant sexual behavior both have their roots in homosexual culture, the sooner these predators will realize its not open season on young males.
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