An appeal court reserved its decision Monday on whether the purpose of wild fantasies at a dominatrix's pleasure pad was sexual arousal or sexual activity. Terri-Jean Bedford admits she manacled, tortured and humiliated her clients - mainly wealthy patrons with wild fantasies - in exchange for money at her Toronto home. But she insists she didn't offer them sex.
Bedford's lawyer Alan Young told a three-judge panel at the Ontario Appeal Court that activities at her ``bondage bungalow'' were no more like prostitution than the service offered by a girl at a country fair's kissing booth.
Convicted in 1998, Bedford was fined $3,000 for operating a common bawdy house, which was divided into theme rooms that included a nursery, a dungeon and a classroom.
