Any place with a population large enough to create a reliable demand for booze, tits, and kinky sex is going to be home to bars, strip clubs, and the odd domination studio. And there are gonna be schools and hospitals nearby because the same population density that creates a demand bars, strip clubs, and domination studios also creates a demand for classrooms, daycare centers, ERs, gallbladder surgeries, etc. And it's safe to say that the kids at Stillwater Junior High School in Stillwater, Minnesota, and the ER docs at Lakeview Hospital—the docs who weren't clients anyway—didn't know about The Taboo Dungeon. But they know about it now.

Vigilant neighbors blew the whistle on an alleged "sex dungeon" operating in a Stillwater residential district next to the junior high school, police said Tuesday.... On her website, the Taboo Goddess extolled its virtues. "The Taboo Dungeon is an exquisitely furnished full-size home that many could only dream of visiting," she wrote. [Police] say the self-described dominatrix shown on the website is Stillwater resident Kristal Ann Taylor, 41, also known as Kristal Zimmerman, who was arrested last week on suspicion of prostitution. She has not been charged with a crime. Stender said he expected to meet with prosecutors Wednesday to discuss the case. Taylor's website said that "domination is not prostitution ... nor am I selling sex."

And any children lucky enough to milling around during the raid got a good—and perhaps formative—gander at the Taboo Goddess's collection of bondage gear as police hauled it all to the curb...

Stender said police seized numerous bondage devices and sex toys from the house, including six pieces of "homemade bondage furniture" and paddles, whips, ropes and other paraphernalia. Loehr said her family watched as police spent two hours Thursday loading items onto a flatbed trailer. Some of the "contraptions" looked like gym equipment, she said.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying that a residential neighborhood in the hometown of rightwing clown Michele Bachmann is an ideal site for a commercial dungeon. All I'm saying is that the hysteria about nearby schools and hospitals is, well, needlessly hysterical. There are a lot of commercial dungeons located near schools and hospitals in big and small cities all over the country and there's a reason you've never heard about a gang of submissive clients pouring out of a commercial dungeon and running riot through nearby middle schools or hospitals: it doesn't happen.

A song dedicated to Rep. Bachmann after the jump...