"Why on EARTH would Matt Smith reveal Mz Berlin's real name when she requested anonymity? That was an egregious lapse in professionalism. It sounds like an act of petty revenge on Mr. Smith's part."

I'm not surprised at all. I had a run in with Mr. Smith and his lack of professional ethics several years ago: I wrote an email commenting negatively on a column he wrote about the Critical Mass bicycle ride in San Francisco. I stupidly emailed it from my work account, and I say stupidly because in clear violation of the SF Weekly's letters policy he forwarded my email -- complete with my full name and email address -- to several bike advocacy groups, and I was inundated with hate email. I complained to the editor of the SF Weekly and never got a response. So apparently "ethics" "Matt Smith" and "SF Weekly" are mutually exclusive.

Actually Mz Berlin does a lot more than that, but she doesn't do anything illegal or without everyone's consent, and she is providing a very needed and special service that only a very few people can professionally give.

As a military man I have gone to great lengths to keep my military separate from my family life, not because the military life is at all controversial, but because I don't want the military in my home.

I lived on base once in my career, and hated it because I had to get base passes for my friends and relatives cars and had to escort them to and from the base gate whenever they came to visit. In general living on a military base was a lot like what I would imagine living in North Korea most be like; the neighbors were very nosy, someone from the base housing management office was always coming over to check on something in my apartment at my inconvenience, and residents quickly got ticketed for even the smallest driving infraction.

After that experience I bought my own residence, moved far away from base, and won't let anything that distinguishes me as military into my home, so I can easily understand why Mz Berlin would want to keep her professional life separate from her personal life.

I am proud to be a serviceman, probably as much as Ms Berlin is proud to be professional dominatrix, or at least I hope she is proud to be a dominatrix, because I appreciate and support her work and hope that she can feel safe in her personal life.

I think it's about time that we all agreed that anyone who has ever had sex should not be allowed to have children. Think about the possible impact on the child of finding out that one, or maybe even both of their parents had engaged in something as dirty as sexual intercourse. It might scar them for life!

We can't stop thinking about sex, but we refuse to make it something enjoyable. Instead, we get our orgasms, culturally speaking, not from the sex itself, but from the torture and public flagellation we inflict on ourselves and others afterwards. Without a doubt the most self-defeating, inefficient and puzzling attitude we could possible take towards a biological function which is not only unavoidable, but specifically evolved to be as attractive as possible.

Oh well. Primates. Go figure.

Not into BDSM but if the woman didn't do anything illegal she should be left alone. I blame the puritans (fundies) in society.

There's an old joke about how the Puritans in America celebrate Thanksgiving for their new life and British celebrate the day after Thanksgiving because that's the day the Puritans left.

I mean hell, would the courts find exotic derivative traders who sunk the global economy unfit for parenthood based on moral grounds? One could only hope.

Speak for yourself.

I have never had sex I didn't enjoy, and I have done just about everything sexual you could imagine.

Except for rape, underage sex, scat, necrophilia, and beastiality.

Those are the areas where I draw the line, and of course everyone should practice safe sex and birth control (if they are not intending to procreate).

Matt Smith is a complete asshole with the ethics of slime mold. He is not a journalist, he is a disgrace to journalism.

That is all.

This article is very unclear about precisely what's going on here. Parents can seek to change custody for any reason at any time, at least where I practice (NY). Doesn't mean they're going to succeed. As to whether she could lose some visitation rights, believe me, parents have lost such rights for far less than having a sketchy career (and, yes, sorry, being a pornographic actress does constitute having a sketchy career when you're looking to look sympathetic before a court, particularly on Louisiana). As to whether she should, well, I'm not sure. Another poster pointed out very astutely that Mom may have had the best of intentions, but that she showed terrible judgment and a lack of grasp of the ramifications of her career.

As to the posters crowing that "it's legal, so it's fine" - think again. There's lots of perfectly legal things a parent can do that can endanger their entitlement to see their children.

I'm not surprised at all. I had a run in with Mr. Smith and his lack of professional ethics several years ago: I wrote an email commenting negatively on a column he wrote about the Critical Mass bicycle ride in San Francisco. I stupidly emailed it from my work account, and I say stupidly because in clear violation of the SF Weekly's letters policy he forwarded my email -- complete with my full name and email address -- to several bike advocacy groups, and I was inundated with hate email. I complained to the editor of the SF Weekly and never got a response. So apparently "ethics" "Matt Smith" and "SF Weekly" are mutually exclusive.

Gotcha. He's an asshole on a power trip. Nothing worse in the world.

And to top it all off, he can't write for shit. (sigh)