Far be it for Chris and me to ever really get political or into anything to do with the law. We rather keep things fun, kinky, and always sex-positive on our Licking Non-Vanilla’s shows. But I read about this case last week, and since the place, this news story is about was pretty much ground zero for kink for a very long time San Francisco, and it’s somewhere Chris, and I have been, (solo and together, even our friend, Lisa Weinberger, guest of episode # 11, also visited with Chris and I way back when), I couldn’t avoid a little exploration of the news that was announced last week about The Armory.
A Ninth Circuit federal appellate court ruled against Armory Studios LLC and owner Peter Acworth in a lawsuit they were bringing against their former insurance company, Atain Specialty. The court held in agreement with an earlier low court opinion that Atain did not have to cover suit costs and settlements that arrived from a lawsuit filed five years ago against the kink establishment and Acworth. These lawsuits claimed that performers filming in the Armory contracted HIV. Acworth claims that these performers shot for a company called Cybernet Entertainment, who was merely a tenant of the Armory.
You can guess the complications.
The Armory space and Acworth’s Kink.com, who filmed there, is a massive edifice. Through its many floors, you can find lots of set pieces, and even rooms taken down to their bare walls, (making for even more perfect set pieces) where the fun sexual tortures were as much enacted by partiers or kink filmmakers. The two times I visited were as a guest of YNOT.com, and it was a naughty fun time had by all.
We often talk about the Armory on our show, and you can look up lots about it, and Kink.com on the net.
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