Alisha Smith aka Alisha Sparks and Edythe Maa AKA Jade Vixen

    Call it a case of giving the people what they want. Because my piece about Alisha Smith, 36, and her sudden suspension as a well paid lawyer (more than $78,000 a year) got by far the most views of the week of any of the many posts I have published-it has been a very prolific week for me-obviously there is some interest about Ms. Smith.

   This is the original piece http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2011/09/alisha-smith-civil-liberties-victim.html

    There are many dimensions to this story. Part of it is as I said in the last piece "Alisha Smith Civil Liberties Victim?" is this a case of being targeted for one's private life if those you work for find it, well, kind of weird and off-putting? This sort of thing happens often to teachers, where you'll have a teacher, maybe a good one who has been Teacher of the Year for 10 years but suddenly a risque picture of her comes out from years ago, or she was a stripper at one time and next thing you know she is let go in a very un-summary way.

   While school's usually have a "morals clause" to hide behind I always find these kind of cases a little questionable. I mean in the case of a school it is child's play(kind of a pun I guess) to argue that a teacher's past or present moonlighting gig makes them unfit to teach children. Yet I am always skeptical and feel the burden of proof should be on those who make such accusations. If it is just a matter of naked pictures from her past or even present then if she doesn't do it on school grounds then to me the burden of proof is on you pointing the finger.
   
  Interestingly the story of Alisha's friend, Edythe Maa-AKA Jade Vixen-is very colorful as well. In an Aug 5 Twitter posting Ms. Smith wrote to her friend, "Ricky's doesn't have the 500 ml. http://www.liberator.com/ is the cheapest I could find for Eros" a reference to Eros Power, a "premium cream lubricant" on a sex products Web site.

   Ms. Maa actually has some pretty serious legal questions about her too-questions not charges. She has actually been linked to the deaths of three of her male associates since 2008. In the most recent, on Aug 18, she found her boyfriend, 49 year old engineer Peter Stelzenmuller, dead in the attic of their Pennsylvania home. The attic was filled with paraphernalia, including rubber masks, and clothes and cans of whipped cream.

    As noted, this is not the first time her male friends have met an untimely demise. In 2008,

    Maa was working : as a dominatrix when her boyfriend, a New York lawyer, was fatally shot near her Philadelphia apartment by an angry former client. The killer then kidnapped and sexually assaulted Maa before killing himself after a nine-hour standoff with police.

   Today, using the name "Jade Vixen," Maa describes herself online as a "fetish model" who likes latex clothing. Chitwood said her website also makes mention of erotic oxygen deprivation.
Chitwood stressed that police "don't have anything to say that this was foul play at this time," and that Stelzenmuller's body showed no bruises or other injuries. Determination of the cause of death is pending toxicology results, he said.

  "I think you have to look at all the circumstances," Chitwood said. "When you look at [Maa's] history of sadomasochism, and find some stuff on her website about oxygen deprivation and all that, you need to find out if it's accidental or something else."

   http://articles.philly.com/2011-09-13/news/30149870_1_scuba-gear-attic-police-superintendent-michael-chitwood

    In addition, this former client, David Krieg after killing her boyfriend lawyer, Anthony Ottaviano in 2008 blew his own brains out.

    As I mentioned in the last post part of what intrigues me is the idea that these women  are dominatrixes not out of economic need-Alisha makes almost $80,000 a year so it wasn't economic need-or because of a man but out of their own desires. This is interesting as it has been wondered if any women actually do enjoy the idea of sexually dominating a man-as many men like the idea of a woman sexually dominating them. It's the old Zizekan conundrum that "there is no Sexual Relationship" , "Woman does not exist" and "there is no Big Other" meaning there is not Big Other to fully satisfy our needs/wants. Empirically speaking Smith and Jade are very curious entities. I'd be interested to interview them for my radio show if I could find them.

   http://planamerica.org/index.jsp?contentPage=NewstandMediaPremiere.jsp

   If anyone knows anything about either of them please feel free to share. It would be a great interview.

   I see that Edythe Maa-Jade Vixen-has had issues with posting her blog before. In a piece on February 23,  2010 she complained that her posts were disappearing. I noticed that when I went to the site, Google Blogspot set up a warning that I was entering a place with some explicit materials and I had to choose between "yes" or "no" that I wanted to see it. That surely didn't help her site.

  http://jade-vixen-blog.blogspot.com/?zx=f4a926674d12bb49

  For those interested-don't be embarrassed!-here is a site that may be more recent.

   http://www.jadevixen.com/join.htm


  What is interesting is that there is a lot of naked pictures and explicit material on the Internet but much of it doesn't give you the warning blogspot gave about Jade. All I will say is that I do think it is a civil liberties question at least where people who are perceived as having some deviant interests are discriminated against. I will be following the case of Alisha Smith who was officially suspended on Monday without pay "pending a full investigation."