"I did this as a healer, not a prostitute"

[sam]

'Amazing Goddess' arrested

http://www.concordmonitor.com

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
Monitor staff
June 06. 2006 8:00AM

he police have arrested a Penacook woman who advertises herself online as an "Amazing Goddess" and charged her with prostitution. According to the police, Suzan Belanger, 38, was running a prostitution business called Amazing Alternatives from 324 Village St. in downtown Penacook.

Belanger said yesterday she intends to fight the charge. While she admits she received money after sex with clients, she said that the money was a donation and that the sex was not for physical gratification.

Belanger said she was called to sexual healing, which she said involves oral sex and intercourse, by God and fairies.

"I did this as a healer, not a prostitute," Belanger said. She hopes to take her fight beyond Concord District Court, where she is to be arraigned June 27. Belanger has a call into Oprah. "I plan to take this sky high," she said, "and show them how godly God can be."

Belanger has been a healer, she said, since January, and she initially advertised herself on the website Craigslist.com under erotic services. She opened her shop in Penacook in mid-March. She said God reassured her that her business was legal.

"He said, 'Suzan, you can be a rainbow in the dark. You can elevate this dark and dirty hole and make it sacred and healing.'"

In her Penacook shop, which is near her home, Belanger said she offers services as a certified Reiki healer, cosmologist, herbalist and sexual therapist. She said she has one ministry degree and is studying for her doctorate in divinity. The money she collected from clients was for her education, she said.

According to a website promoting her business, Belanger is one of many "goddesses" and "gods"available across the country who work as hypnotherapists, yoga teachers and "sexual surrogates."

On Belanger's page, which includes photographs of her in lingerie and, in one case, holding a likeness of a fairy, there is no explicit offer of sex. Belanger, instead, promotes the "many alternative healing modalities under (her) gold Venus belt." Those include her skills as a sorceress and "all around loving caring soul."

She writes on her website that her most amazing feature is not her style, grace or beauty, but her mind. She believes she was raised by fairies and says her magical energy can be a "channel of heaven right here on earth."

She also advertises her skillful touch. "My fingers will glide upon your flesh," she writes. "Like playing heavens (sic) golden harp."

The police issued a press release saying Belanger had been arrested, but they have not been available for further comment. Belanger said she was arrested Friday afternoon after a man named Mike arrived for his 2 p.m. appointment. (She said she does not take her clients' last names, because they don't want their wives to know they are seeing her.) Belanger said Mike "threw"$200 at her before they had begun their session and then said he needed to get his cell phone from his car.

As he was leaving, the police came in, Belanger said, and told her she was being charged with prostitution. Belanger said she never touched Mike. In New Hampshire, someone can be charged with prostitution simply for agreeing to engage in sexual contact for money. Sexual contact, as defined by state law, is sex for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification.

[MaddyH]

Gee, I wonder if these guys would have accepted healing like this from a male healer? Kinda doubt it.

[oneangrygirl]

You can elevate this dark and dirty hole and make it sacred and healing.

Is she referring to her vagina?

[sam]

I had the same thought, oag.

[delphyne]

Me too.

Someone's got a few issues.

[annared]

Me three

[deedle]

Me four.

[dragonfly]

me five...I think she must have been!

[alyx]

She said God reassured her that her business was legal.

"He said, 'Suzan, you can be a rainbow in the dark. You can elevate this dark and dirty hole and make it sacred and healing.'"

God said that? Sounds like the Old Testament God to me. Bastard.

[Army Of Me]

I didn't know whether to be more alarmed at the fact that she actually had so much delusional self-belief, bordering on the spectacular (or was she just pretending?), or the fact that I saw the word "reiki" in the story. Probably both.

The fairies, angels, pixies, spirit guides of the magical universe and yes, god himself, probably guided the customers to her special and enlightened place of sexual worship so that they could be healed in the hands of a truly wonderous & amazing goddess of sparkly empowered female energy. I'm sure they left feeling uplifted and more caring towards their fellow human beings, (including women?) and couldn't wait to tell all their family and friends about the enormous feeling of well-being experienced when being totally enveloped in the pure light of sexual release. Gotta go puke now.

Word of advice - don't go near anyone who is involved in reiki. Some are probably ok, but in my experience, stay well clear.

Edit - one more thing on a similar note - if you really want to see spectacular self-delusion and prostitution dressed up as spiritual enlightenment please look up this site but be warned, some may be very upset and sickened, especially if you explore links and field reports. It's truly awesome in it's warped denial. (She is a very high profile escort in this country - uk.)

http://www.princesskama dot com (please type in a proper .com after plonking it in your browser.)

[oneangrygirl]

God never tells me anything!

[Army Of Me]

oag maybe that's a good thing, judging by the above.

It's enough to turn people into atheists - the god concept and religion were probably invented to reinforce male dominance and female subservience anyway.

Right, off to my weekly pagan ritual ceremony.

[annared]

It's enough to turn people into atheists - the god concept and religion were probably invented to reinforce male dominance and female subservience anyway.

Yup... thats why the Christian's took over the Celts in my neck of the UK. It was just all too EQUAL.

[sam]

The beginning of Howard Zinn's landmark lefty book "A People's History of the United States" includes a warning from an early settler that the indigenous women of the Atlantic islands they encountered were disturbingly equal to the men and it would be best to not let the women back in Europe learn of such gender egalitarianism lest they get ideas.

[rich]

A lot of that is BS, though; I'm down with bashing Christianity as much as the next person, but the idealization of *other* patriarchal societies and religions (often when there's no real proof, other than recycled decontextualized hearsay, to back up the claims of equality) is itself racist. And sexist. If we ascribe some form of femininity to say, the Iroquios, because they "lost" to colonialist whites, meaning we have to judge them an egalitarian society even though they declared male hostages living in their communities to be "women" (lacking political rights of men), that's not treating Iroquoia itself as an equal to our culture: it's a whitewash for the benefit of whites currently irritated with one aspect of their own culture.

I think that ties into the whole sacred-prostitute thing currently on the upswing; scholarship of ancient women is absolutely fixated on "whores" because they're supposed to show us something about "good wives" as if they're completely oppositional groups. But then the noble prostitutes that Greek men wrote about didn't even exist: those greek men were writing in the hellenistic and roman eras, hundreds of years after the "hetaira" that they fancied were supposed to have lived. They were a literary invention to prop up their own selves, currently feminized compared to other men who had power in the west. 1600 years later it's happening all over again, and the "neo-pagans" behind it are whitewashing sexist history just because they're unsatisfied with their own society in some way. (even though a lot of them have substantial power within our society.)

[rich]

IOW, a lot of indiginous people might say "our culture is as good as anyone elses" while a white person steps up to the plate and says "indigenous culture X is the best" before going on and on about Bonobo monkeys fucking each other or something.

Something I wrote for an article about a guy (who insists he's a woman or bigendered whenever it's convenient) who is big into promoting mythology of "sacred whoring":

Never mind that for every Diotima (just as there are Nina Hartleys and Dr. Susan Block’s today) there were tens of thousands of women who were powerless and forced into the occupation, subtly or not; this “respect” being a whitewashing of historical truth, a truth that can still be seen in the images on vases that are not generally shown in text books of old, toothless prostitutes with sagging breasts fellating the men of the symposium; images designed to impress men as humor. Similarly, Long takes the name of “Hierodule” (holy slave) for himself, referring to various sects of priestesses who sometimes served as ritual prostitutes throughout various cultures, their “respect” and freedom came at a great price—as it always does for females in patriarchy—where they could be drowned or even buried alive for their indiscretions. Their existence was not an honor to the feminine-divine, but the antithesis of female humanity. Yet the word itself is now being ‘reclaimed’ by someone who is male and was privileged as such at birth.

[Army Of Me]

so rich, I'm still not clear - are you pro or anti elves/fairies?

[rich]

I don't have much of a real life so I have to stay away from unreal lives, lest I settle for one.

[Army Of Me]

quite a cryptic statement I think - let me see if I can paraphrase - you are saying that a) you don't get out much, and b) and so are resistant to letting imagination run riot (paricularly when stimulated by other's imaginings) in case you become a psycho?

Shit I need to get a life too.

[rich]

I think you covered all the bases. <3