As I mentioned Saturday, Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House on the Prairie stories have apparently fallen out of favor with the Association for Library Services. They’re not happy with some of Wilder’s treatment of “minorities,” preferring to judge her according to our enlightened 21st century mores, and throwing out the baby with the bathwater; censoring attitudes they may have been unfortunate, but were by most accounts the norm 150 years ago.
 
My friends and I grew up reading these wonderful books, developing a sense of appreciation for the hardships endured by the pioneers and the values that sustained them; family, faith, perseverance and self-reliance.
 
I’m still tying to figure out how we’ve decided we can no longer tolerate those wholesome qualities, yet we barely blink at all-new lows of sexual perversion, like this sick saga of dark homosexual desires with an ending as tragic as it is bizarre ~ Death in a Hollywood Sex Dungeon: “Mummification” Ritual Ended in Tragedy .
 
Last November a gay bondage game didn’t end well for Doran George, a former dancer and performance artist who, despite a 16 year relationship with his “partner,” also felt the occasional urge to dabble in a little S&M on the side. Hollywood Reporter ran the story last week, not at all disconcerted by the unsavory details. I’m certainly not going to share them all here but suffice it to say it involved…

a sex ritual gone horribly awry — one in which (Skip) Chasey oversaw the mummification of a partner in plastic wrap, who then proceeded to expire in front of him.

The fact that this information is only now being widely disseminated, 7 months after it occurred – despite featuring a prominent Hollywood executive and the shocking death of a UCLA professor – is unsettling in itself. Apparently this sort of aberrant behavior is now mainstream in Hollywood. Or at least mainstream enough that it’s not front page news when it happens.

 
Skip Chasey, a senior vp of business development at William Morris Endeavor, is well known in L.A.’s BDSM (bondage/discipline, dominance/submission and sadism/masochism) community ~

(Chasey is a) respected 😯 figure in the Los Angeles leather scene. Google his “nom de dungeon” and dozens of links and videos turn up, including an entry on Leatherpedia.com, which provides some biographical highlights. Born in 1956 in Port Huron, Michigan, he gravitated in his 20s to America’s gay meccas — first San Francisco in 1978, then New York City in 1981, and finally laid roots in Los Angeles in 1992, where he fully immersed himself in the gay bondage scene.

 
So anyway, after “Master Skip” realized George was “unresponsive” (being restrained and encased in plastic wrap may have that effect) – in Chasey’s specially-constructed S&M dungeon – he called paramedics, who recorded the death at 6:35 p.m., on November 19th. The autopsy concluded it was “sudden death during recreational mummification bondage.”
Incredibly, the investigation was closed with no charges filed, Chasey still has his job and the Hollywood gay bondage scene goes on.
 

This quote from the Reporter article is revealing ~

It’s an impressive testament to Hollywood open-mindedness that none of these pursuits has ever bothered Ari Emanuel or any of Chasey’s other powerful bosses at WME, where he has earned a reputation for being a gifted negotiator and all-around nice guy.

 
In other words, ho-hum, this is just the brave new norm. Get used to it. Little House on the Prairie is banned, and Chasey and his fellow perverts are totally free to pursue their sick BDSM practices.
 
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Related:
Master Skip & The Mummy ~ Ugh.
Liberals declare war on ‘Little House’: they despise how it portrays Christianity, family life ~

It is not particularly surprising, when all things are considered, that Wilder’s beautiful books are falling out of favor with the cultural elites. After all, much of what she tries to convey in her books is out of fashion: Basic virtue, Christianity, self-sufficiency, suspicion of government, and the beauty of family life. People respond to her books because they find something that they love within the pages, and find themselves attracted to the life Laura describes—one that is in equal parts about hardship and the power of a loving family.