One Dildo, Two Wetsuits, One Dead Fundie
Thanks to loyal reader Ericsan for tipping me off to this one. The Smoking Gun tells us:
Dead Reverend’s Rubber Fetish
Autopsy: Pastor found in wet suits after autoerotic mishap
OCTOBER 8—An Alabama minister who died in June of “accidental mechanical asphyxia” was found hogtied and wearing two complete wet suits, including a face mask, diving gloves and slippers, rubberized underwear, and a head mask, according to an autopsy report.
Investigators determined that Rev. Gary Aldridge’s death was not caused by foul play and that the 51-year-old pastor of Montgomery’s Thorington Road Baptist Church was alone in his home at the time he died (while apparently in the midst of some autoerotic undertaking).
While the Montgomery Advertiser, which first obtained the autopsy records, reported on Aldridge’s two wet suits, the family newspaper chose not to mention what police discovered inside the minister’s rubber briefs.
At this point, they link to the five-page autopsy report. Page 2 of the report contains the prurient parts. After going into great detail on how the body was attired in two wetsuits and numerous straps and cords restraining the wrists and ankles, the autopsy report adds:
There is one dildo in the anus covered with a condom.
Well at least he was practicing safe sex!
Now I shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, but it appears that Rev. Aldridge also broke the law. In the state of Alabama, it is illegal to purchase a dildo. Criminal!
OK, so there are a lot of fetishists out there. Who are we to judge? Ordinarily, I wouldn’t, but look who we’re talking about here. As Cliff Schecter reports:
Aldridge had been a senior pastor at Thorington Road Baptist Church for 15 years.
and
Gary Aldridge graduated from Liberty University and later worked for the late Jerry Falwell.
In other words, he was a dedicated fundie who no doubt spent countless hours telling other people how to live their sex lives.
If they can’t stick to their own rules, they have no business foisting them upon us.
October 10th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Perhaps he was given the dildo?
Then, if he hadn’t bought it, he hadn’t broken the law.
There’s been a lot of discussion of this case over at PZ Myer’s place, re the difficulty of getting into 2 wetsuits, and how does one hogtie oneself?
October 10th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
He could have also ordered it by mail or brought it in from out of state. Thankfully, possession has been decriminalized.
I was wondering how he managed to hogtie himself and why the coroner thought that no foul play was involved. Maybe the coroner was misquoted. Since this was a fetish accident, maybe he meant that no fowl play was involved.
October 10th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
The saddest part is that somehow, nothing EVER fazes the followers, no matter how many Haggards and Bakkers and Aldridges you throw at them. Then again, they wouldn’t be following these fucked up religions if they weren’t dumbasses in the first place, so that’s par for the course I guess.
October 11th, 2007 at 8:43 am
You know it’s hard not to giggle when you see the hypocracy here, but this is really a sad story from all perspectives. The problem with the hypocritical sexual “deviant” (their term, not mine) fundies is that they are so caught up in believing that what they desire and are doing is a sin, they probably spend hours/days/weeks crying and praying for those thoughts to go away — but they never do because it’s just more complicated than that.
This in turn I believe leads to why they try SO hard to keep people from “falling prey” to sins like their own and why they speak out against most sexual acts. It really shows how the whole system they are a part of and support screws them up too, makes them unhappy, and anybody else “fighting” against a fetish they desire. It’s probably even worse if they are homosexual because not being attracted to the opposite sex and not wanting to “be fruitful and multiply” with him or her must be incredibly painful… “why me” i’m sure they think to themselves.
If these things were not seen as sins and they weren’t afraid of going to hell for them, they could be more open (or at least feel less guilty). For example, the stall-tapping fundie politicians would be in openly gay HEALTHY relationships, instead of risky anonymous bathroom sex.
So, as hard as it is to not giggle when you see the hypocracy, you have to remember that they are actually victims of the same system they support. It is sad that he had to be so mean to others, and just as sad that he was so repressed that he had to get into autoerotic asphyxiation to “get off” when the natural biological urges he had been suppressing finally exploded.
Seriously, if he had a partner that was into his fetishes, he could have enjoyed his urges safely… or at least the partner could have called 911 if something went bad. Or maybe if he wasn’t repressed, he wouldn’t have needed something so extreme to get him off. Maybe just leather and latex would have done the trick.
Sad, sad, sad, sad…
October 15th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
If you suppress your desires, eventually your desires become perverse.
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:58 pm
What I want to know about this is since he was allegedly alone and no foul play is suspected….how did he hog tie himself? That usually requires some assistance.
I guess it doesn’t matter. I found it typical of this sort of hypocrite. I must admit to having a bit of a laugh as well. After all, he was so on Bill Clinton for getting oral sex from a woman.
I’m thinking fundies figure anal sex with a dildo is okay if you’re all by yourself in a wet suit or two. OMG no oral stimulation though.