by Coleen Singer, Sssh.com Porn For Women and Couples
For most of the men who happened to be on the roster of this season’s New York Jets team, the low point of 2014 probably arrived on November 24, when the team went down in flames to divisional rival Buffalo Bills, 38-3.
I can only imagine sitting in the locker room after the game, which left them with the woeful record of 2-9 at the time, most of the players felt like things couldn’t get much lower for them than merely being a New York Jet.
Off the field, however, one of their injured teammates was doing his best (allegedly) to boost their spirits by proving things get much, much lower than being a New York Jet.
Jermaine Cunningham, who sat out the season with an injury to his Achilles tendon, now stands charged with a charming little list of crimes: invasion of privacy, unlawful weapons transport and criminal mischief, following an arrest on December 29.
“Criminal mischief” makes it sound a bit like Cunningham spray-painted his initials on the side of a Burger King, and I’m not sure how he transported the guns in question. Regardless, the invasion of privacy charge is the one most people are paying attention to, mostly because it enables them to use the word “porn” in a headline.
Cunningham’s means of invading the alleged victim’s privacy, you see, fits within the scope of New Jersey’s ban on “revenge porn.”
Prosecutors haven’t said how or where Cunningham distributed images of the alleged victim, but the law in question prohibits disclosing or distributing photos or videos of someone without their consent when their “intimate parts are exposed” or when they are engaged in a sexual act.
Ultimately, whether he posted them to the web, or gave the images to a third party via email or on a CD, it doesn’t really matter under this particular law. It also doesn’t matter whether Cunningham, in fact, distributed the images as a means of taking “revenge” on the woman in question.
Cunningham has pleaded not guilty to the charges, and the judge released him on his own recognizance due to his hitherto clean record. As we all collectively judge, lambast or ridicule Cunningham on the Internet, it’s important to remember he hasn’t yet been convicted of anything, and may never be, for that matter.
Be that as it may, there’s one thing of which he’s clearly guilty: Being a Jet.
As a lifelong Miami Dolphins fan, my husband assures me this is a major transgression against humanity, in itself (With the notable exception of Nick Folk, who like my husband attended the University of Arizona, so he gets a pass), although one can always be redeemed and forgiven if one leaves in free agency, gets traded, or quits the team in frustration and to ‘take their talents to South Beach,’ as an athlete from another professional sport once famously put it.
As a free agent in the coming season, Cunningham has a chance to start fresh on a new team, in a new city, in a new season.
Granted, he may also begin the season with a wardrobe heavy on bright orange jumpsuits or unflattering pinstripe pajamas…. but at least he’ll no longer be a Jet.
About Coleen Singer:
Coleen Singer is a writer, photographer, film editor and all-around geeky gal at Sssh.com (@ssshforwomen), where she often waxes eloquent about Female Friendly Porn, sex, pleasure products, censorship, the literary and pandering evils of Fifty Shades of Grey and other topics not likely to be found on the Pulitzer Prize shortlist. She is also the editor and curator of EroticScribes.com. When she is not doing all of the above, Singer is an amateur stock-car racer and enjoys modifying vintage 1970s cars for the racetrack. Oh, she also likes porn.
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