And in the latest sex news

Okay…so let’s see…police infiltrated environmental groups, as if they were a drug ring, and cops were allowed to have affairs with both men and women in these groups as part of their jobs. This flows less like ‘reality’ and more like that episode of South Park where the cop assigned to bust the prostitution ring becomes a transvestite hooker, marries his ‘pimp’, moves to France or wherever him, then busts him a year later. Oh this is the same episode wherein Butters goes into business in a pay for kissing operation behind the science trailer, then moves up to running a prostitution ring. It’s called ‘Bottom Bitch’. And now on with our News of the Weird.–efc

Undercover police officers routinely adopted a tactic of “promiscuity” with the blessing of senior commanders, according to a former agent who worked in a secretive unit of the Metropolitan police for four years.

So cool and groovy -- Mark Kennedy had sexual relationships with several women while serving as an undercover policeman and infiltrating a ring of environmental activists

The former undercover policeman claims that sexual relationships with activists were sanctioned for both men and women officers infiltrating anarchist, leftwing and environmental groups.

Sex was a tool to help officers blend in, the officer claimed, and was widely used as a technique to glean intelligence. His comments contradict claims last week from the Association of Chief Police Officers that operatives were absolutely forbidden to sleep with activists.

The one stipulation, according to the officer from the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), a secret unit formed to prevent violent disorder on the streets of London, was that falling in love was considered highly unprofessional because it might compromise an investigation. He said undercover officers, particularly those infiltrating environmental and leftwing groups, viewed having sex with a large number of partners “as part of the job”.

“Everybody knew it was a very promiscuous lifestyle,” said the former officer, who first revealed his life as an undercover agent to the Observer last year. “You cannot not be promiscuous in those groups. Otherwise you’ll stand out straightaway.”

Read more in The Guardian.

14 thoughts on “And in the latest sex news”

  1. Ok as wife, I wonder if these married undercover, sleeping around cops used condoms? If not, as a wife, I would be pissed off that my spouse might bring home HIV to ME because of his “job” of sleeping undercover. Or some other STD.

    I mean understanding my husband sleeping around is one thing (if it is openly done and we agree on it, why not?) but getting a life-ending disease like HIV is another!

  2. I’m suggesting that the lines on his forehead (Kennedy) don’t look like those of a scholar. If the other sleuths on the job are on par him – they are all as stupid can be.

  3. kelly and half: for sure, all of that. sexual relationships in much of our culture are rife with “i want what i want with whomever whenever, but i only want you to want me.” i’ve certainly been guilty of that charge.

    aword — you’re cracking me up on this thread! 🙂 and as for what’s in the charts of the undercover agents, yes i’d be curious too. but i do know the former agent i mentioned has a gemini sun! i remember cracking up when he told me.

  4. @Kelly – hypocrisy nor stupidity are implicit. We have a *reported* experience/observation. Of course, promiscuity (whatever that means) involves people and I can’t think of many who won’t have attachment issues. Many people routinely servicing a variety of sexual partners (lucky them!) are secretly wanting ‘the One’.

    So the attachment issues work out differently than your own.

    Sadly, it is too easy for mainstream reporting to bait with herring rouge, a little crude sexism to pepper the pot.

    The thing to do with such pepper? Sneeze.. 😉

  6. On one hand,
    “You cannot not be promiscuous in those groups. Otherwise you’ll stand out straightaway” and; on the other,
    ‘It’s amazing how women don’t like you going to bed with someone else’.

    WTF?

    Is this stupidity or hypocrisy?

    ;)………………………….stupid

  8. ah, meant to add something along the lines of “yummy” after the Tasmanian Hair Curlers…..:-X .just a little blending of the posts here.

    But then, I do suppose an undrcvragnt would love to go undercover with L’amanda’n’friends. And her vid IS about personal environment and appropriate handling of resources.

  10. ha. ya. not like it’s all about above-board relating. And I mean ALL of it. What stars lurk in the charts of those who would choose a life of “under cover” (rather than, I suppose an above board life Under the Covers – which sounds far more Tasmanian Hair Curlers to me.)

  11. ‘”The best way of stopping any liaison getting too heavy was to shag somebody else. It’s amazing how women don’t like you going to bed with someone else,’ said the officer.”

    ok, that just strikes me as a bit funny. it’s amazing how women don’t like that!

    “The former SDS officer, who has now left the Met, said one stipulation by senior commanders was that undercover officers should be married, so that they had something to return to. He said the move was introduced when a spy never returned after five years undercover.”

    i’d be very curious to know how those wives deal with it all. presumably they are not privy to the undercover specifics, but they must wonder.

    and actually, i briefly dated someone who used to do undercover work. from what i understand, it sounds like it was pure hell on his marriages, the first one i particular (he had been married three times).

  14. “like that episode of South Park where the cop assigned to bust the prostitution ring becomes a transvestite hooker, gets married, moves to France or wherever with his pimp, and then busts him a year later. –efc”

    I love you XD

    And as for that cop, that’s just sick. It’s amazing how easily people take advantage of whatever they’re given and think it’s okay.

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