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Rising Up In Darlington County
May. 19th, 2006 07:01 am"Sex Slave Cult Discovered In Darlington".
Have you noticed how, although movies like that David Bowie/vampire flick tend to focus on the sexual deviations apparently rife in metro New York and other urban hotspots, when it comes down to it, bizarre sex cults, swingers' clubs, voluntary cannibalism (which led to a great headline from my friend "What's Eating The Germans?") and the like, all seem to take place in suburbia or the "normal" provinces?
I had no idea that there were 25,000 Goreans worldwide, people who have constructed a philosophy around the Chronicles of Gor — quite astoundingly bad science fiction written by John Norman which I thought only adolescent males read after they had gone to bed. But the Darlington cult went one better than that. These people were Kaotians, a splinter group from the Goreans.
They had a photograph of the house in which this cult was based in Darlington -- a pebble-dashed terraced house in Darlington which explains why property prices in some parts of the world will never really attain the heights of Manhattan or central London.
You have to wonder how boring the lives of these people must be for them to head off into a land of cults based on novels written solely to pad Mr Norman's burgeoning bank account. Do these people have jobs at the local DSS, or as low-level hospital administrators? Do they, indeed, have jobs at all? Did the guy who put this together just think of it one night after rereading one of the Chronicles for the 25th page-stained time? "I know, I'll turn this into reality!", he thought, in a moment of what must have seemed mind-bending clarity.
Apparently 350 of these people meet in pubs and clubs throughout the north-east over halves of shandy and two-hour pints of bitter. Just goes to show, as they say up north, there's nowt so strange as folk.
Busy this weekend, so updates may be sporadic, if at all.
Have you noticed how, although movies like that David Bowie/vampire flick tend to focus on the sexual deviations apparently rife in metro New York and other urban hotspots, when it comes down to it, bizarre sex cults, swingers' clubs, voluntary cannibalism (which led to a great headline from my friend "What's Eating The Germans?") and the like, all seem to take place in suburbia or the "normal" provinces?
I had no idea that there were 25,000 Goreans worldwide, people who have constructed a philosophy around the Chronicles of Gor — quite astoundingly bad science fiction written by John Norman which I thought only adolescent males read after they had gone to bed. But the Darlington cult went one better than that. These people were Kaotians, a splinter group from the Goreans.
They had a photograph of the house in which this cult was based in Darlington -- a pebble-dashed terraced house in Darlington which explains why property prices in some parts of the world will never really attain the heights of Manhattan or central London.
You have to wonder how boring the lives of these people must be for them to head off into a land of cults based on novels written solely to pad Mr Norman's burgeoning bank account. Do these people have jobs at the local DSS, or as low-level hospital administrators? Do they, indeed, have jobs at all? Did the guy who put this together just think of it one night after rereading one of the Chronicles for the 25th page-stained time? "I know, I'll turn this into reality!", he thought, in a moment of what must have seemed mind-bending clarity.
Apparently 350 of these people meet in pubs and clubs throughout the north-east over halves of shandy and two-hour pints of bitter. Just goes to show, as they say up north, there's nowt so strange as folk.
Busy this weekend, so updates may be sporadic, if at all.
